Polymer waveguide technology for flexible display applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8280, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Okuda, Yuuto ^a   Fujieda, Ichiro ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

backlight; concentrator photovoltaic; flexible display; laser display; waveguide

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; BACKLIGHT; BEAM SCANNING; CONCENTRATOR PHOTOVOLTAICS; COST ADVANTAGES; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DISPLAY APPLICATION; DISPLAY RESOLUTIONS; EMISSION POINT; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; LASER DISPLAY; LASER LIGHTS; LIGHT EXTRACTION; LIGHT OUTPUT; OPTICAL PATH; OPTICAL POWER; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; POLYMER WAVEGUIDES; ROLL-TO-ROLL PROCESS; UNIFORM ILLUMINATION; WAVE-GUIDING; WAVEGUIDE FABRICATION;

DISPLAY DEVICES; FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS; LENSES; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POLYMERS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84857344400     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.906550     Document Type: Conference Paper

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