Design of a polarized head-mounted projection display using ferroelectric liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplays

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2888-2896

  Zhang, Rui ^a   Hua, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ENGINES; FERROELECTRICITY; HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS; LIGHT; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS;

FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; HEAD-MOUNTED PROJECTIONS; HIGHER RESOLUTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY(LCD); OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL SEE-THROUGH HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAYS; POLARIZATION STATE; TRANSFER EFFICIENCY;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS;

EID: 49749094414     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.002888     Document Type: Article

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