Speckle suppression in projection displays by using a motionless changing diffuser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7387, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kartashov, Vladimir ^a   Akram, Muhammad Nadeem ^b  

^a PoLight AS   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

diffractive optical element; diffuser; projection display; spatial light modulator; speckle suppression

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSER; DYNAMIC DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; HOMOGENIZERS; LASER LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT FIELDS; LIGHT POWER; POLYMER LAYERS; PROJECTION DISPLAYS; PROJECTION OPTICS; RANDOM-PHASE; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; SPECKLE PATTERNS; SPECKLE SUPPRESSION; THEORETICAL EXPRESSION;

DENSITY (OPTICAL); DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); LIGHT; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PROJECTION SCREENS; SPECKLE;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 78049395540     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.868117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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