Projection display for the generation of two orthogonal polarized images using liquid crystal on silicon panels and light emitting diodes

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1535-1542

  Bogaert, Lawrence ^a   Meuret, Youri ^a   Van Giel, Bart ^a   Murat, Hüseyin ^b   De Smet, Herbert ^b,c   Thienpont, Hugo ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; RAY TRACING;

COMPONENT SPECIFICATION; FULL COLOR IMAGES; HIGH POWER LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ILLUMINATION SYSTEM; LIQUID-CRYSTAL-ON-SILICON PANELS; NONSEQUENTIAL RAY-TRACING SOFTWARE; PROJECTION DISPLAYS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 48949090970     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001535     Document Type: Article

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