WO2006081243A1 - Systeme d'eclairage a diodes electroluminescentes (del) pour matrice a micromiroirs et procede de production correspondant - Google Patents

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WO2006081243A1
WO2006081243A1 PCT/US2006/002489 US2006002489W WO2006081243A1 WO 2006081243 A1 WO2006081243 A1 WO 2006081243A1 US 2006002489 W US2006002489 W US 2006002489W WO 2006081243 A1 WO2006081243 A1 WO 2006081243A1
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Jinhui Zhai
Haizhang Li
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  • This invention generally relates to a polarized light illumination apparatus to provide illumination for a microdisplay projection-type display system.
  • RECTlFIED SHEET (RULE 91 ) ISA/EP generate light.
  • the light emitted from the light source must be converted into polarized light for illuminating an LCD or LCoS spatial light modulator.
  • LCD or LCoS spatial light modulator Those skilled in the art will recognize that the optical system contained within a commercial LCD or LCoS projector typically combines a fly's-eye lens array with a polarizing beam splitter array. Examples of such an arrangement can be found in U.S. Patent Nos. 6,411,438, 6,776,489, 6,739,726 and 6,092,901 which are all incorporated by reference herein. Two drawbacks to using the fly's-eye type of optical system are that it is bulky and expensive to manufacture.
  • Etendue refers specifically to the geometric capability of an optical system to transmit radiation such as its throughput.
  • UV light there is a significant amount of ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (TR) light emitted from this type of lamp.
  • the unfiltered UV light reduces the lifetime of both the optical components and microdisplay panel within the system, while IR light requires additional cooling devices to maintain a desired operating temperature.
  • Significant efforts have been dedicated towards moving away from short arc lamps through the utilization of light emitting diodes (LED) in projection illumination systems.
  • LEDs using three primary colors can produce a wider color gamut than conventional white lamps.
  • LEDs have a high light efficiency, i.e., the ratio of luminous output to the electrical power required, since all spectra of the red, green and blue light from LEDs can be utilized in a visual system.
  • U.S. Patent No. 6,224,216 which is incorporated by reference herein, describes a triple path projector employing three single-color LED arrays.
  • the LEDs emit light propagating along separate paths through fiber bundles to respective waveguide integrators and thereafter to respective display devices.
  • U.S. Patent No. 6,220,714 discloses a projection system using LEDs for illumination, where light beams emitting from red, green and blue LED arrays are collimated by condenser lenses which pass through fly's-eye type of integrators for illuminating a single panel. Based on the geometry of the fly's-eye type integrator, only the surface area of light emitting region within a certain field of view can be effectively collected for illuminating a panel. A similar system can be found in U.S. Patent No. 6,644,814, which describes an LED-illumination- type DMD projector with one panel.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an LED color illumination assembly that includes three LEDs, three waveguides and a non-polarized cross-dichroic combiner in accordance with one embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an LED color illumination assembly with lenses added to exit faces of the waveguides as shown in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the use of a non-polarized V-type dichroic combiner in accordance with an alternative embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating yet another alternative embodiment of the present invention with lenses added to exit faces of the waveguides shown in FIG. 3.
  • FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating yet another alternative embodiment of the present invention wherein the light-emitting devices shown in FIG. 1 are arranged on the same plate.
  • FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating yet another alternative embodiment of the present invention with lenses added to exit faces of the waveguides shown in FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating yet another alternative embodiment of the present invention where a non-polarized V-type dichroic combiner is used with the system as shown in FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating an alternative embodiment of the present invention with lenses added to exit faces of the waveguides shown in FIG. 7.
  • FIGs. 9, 10 and 11 are block diagrams illustrating three different embodiments of a polarization converter system of the present invention.
  • FIG. 12 is a block diagram illustrating an LED color illumination system in accordance with the present invention, combining the assembly shown in FIG. 2 with a polarization recovery system shown in FIG. 9.
  • FIG. 13 is a block diagram illustrating an alternative embodiment of an LED color illumination system combining the assembly shown in FIG. 2 with the polarization recovery system shown in FIG. 10.
  • FIG. 14 is a block diagram illustrating an alternative embodiment of an LED color illumination system combining the assembly shown in FIG. 2 with the polarization recovery system shown in FIG. 11.
  • FIG. 15 is a block diagram illustrating yet another alternative embodiment of an LED color illumination system combining the assembly shown in FIG. 4 with the polarization recovery system showing in FIG. 9.
  • FIG. 16 is a block diagram illustrating yet another alternative embodiment of an LED color illumination system combining an assembly shown in FIG. 4 with the polarization recovery system shown in FIG. 10.
  • FIG. 17 is a block diagram illustrating yet another alternative embodiment of an LED color illumination system combining an assembly shown in FIG. 4 with the polarization recovery system shown in FIG. 11.
  • FIG. 18 is a block diagram illustrating yet another alternative embodiment of an LED color illumination system combining an assembly shown in FIG. 6 with the polarization recovery system shown in FIG. 10.
  • FIG. 19 is a block diagram illustrating yet another alternative embodiment of an LED color illumination system using a polarizing cross-dichroic combiner for color combining.
  • FIGs. 20-23 are block diagrams illustrating light projection systems for projecting light from a dichroic combiner to a microdisplay panel.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram depicting a polarized light illumination assembly in accordance with the present invention which includes a red LED 101, a green LED 102, a blue LED 103, three tapered waveguides 104, 105, 106, and a cross-dichroic combiner 107.
  • the light beams emitting from the red LED 101, green LED 102 and blue LED 103 are homogenized and guided by tapered waveguides 104, 105 and 106, respectively.
  • the light exit faces of the waveguides are connected to three entrance surfaces of the non-polarized cross-dichroic combiner 107.
  • the green light transmits through the dichroic combiner 107 while the red and blue light beams are reflected from the dichroic combiner 107.
  • the tapered waveguides 104, 105 and 106 are structures that "guide" the respective RGB light waves by tapering the beam to travel along a certain desired path to the dichroic combiner 107.
  • the design of the tapered waveguide will act to guide cone light from a 60-degree diverge LED light to the input non- polarizing dichroic combiner.
  • this device consists of two dichroic coating filters that combine or separate beams of three different colors, namely, red (r), green (g), and blue (b).
  • One dichroic coating filter reflects blue light by transmitting green and red lights while another dichroic coating filter reflects red light by transmitting green and blue lights, where the RGB light from three input directions can be combined into one output light path
  • the dichroic combiner can be either a cross type, V-type or similar configuration.
  • the non-polarizing dichroic combiner can be used to combine both P and S polarization input light at high efficiency.
  • a tapered hollow pipe or a tapered integrator rod is used as a waveguide to achieve multifunctional objectives.
  • a novel tapered waveguide is then used to collimate, homogenize and shape the light beam.
  • the tapered waveguide can reduce the angle of the input cone at the tapered ratio due to etendue preservation which is the product of the illuminated area and the illumination solid angle at the output face of the waveguide is equal to the etendue at the input face of the waveguide.
  • the area of the output face of the waveguides 104, 105, 106 is greater than that of its input face, thus the cone angle of the output beam is smaller than that of the input beam. Consequently, a collimation function is achieved.
  • the second function of the tapered waveguides 104, 105, 106 is that of a light homogenizer that works to change the spatially, non-uniform distributed light on the input face of the waveguide to output light that has essentially uniform intensity.
  • the third function of waveguides 104, 105, 106 is beam shaping where the aspect ratio of the output surface of the tapered waveguide will be different from that of the input surface. This is essential in the invention since the shape of the light source must be proportional to that of the panel that is illuminated.
  • FIG. 1 shows an intentional gap between the red waveguide 104 and the upper side surface of the non-polarized cross-dichroic combiner 107 as well as between the blue waveguide 106 and lower side surface of the non-polarized dichroic combiner 107.
  • light that exits from the green waveguide 105 reflects internally on both side surfaces of the dichroic combiner 107 and green light bleeding into the red and blue waveguides 105, 106 can be prevented.
  • FIG. 2 shows an alternative embodiment of the illumination assembly shown in FIG. 1 where lenses 207, 208, 209 can be attached to the exit surfaces of the respective waveguides, allowing the light beams exiting from three waveguides to become further converged.
  • the light emitting from red LED 201, green LED 202 and blue LED 203 are homogenized and guided by tapered waveguides 204, 205 and 206, respectively.
  • the light beams exiting from three waveguides 204, 205 and 206 are further converged by three lenses 207, 208 and 209 and thereafter enter the three entrance surfaces of the non-polarized cross- dichroic combiner 207.
  • FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the invention where a V-type non-polarized dichroic combiner 308 or other shaped combiner can be employed to replace the cross-dichroic combiner shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2.
  • the main advantages of the V-type non-polarized dichroic combiner 308 as compared to the non-polarized cross-dichroic combiner are in its low cost and ease of manufacture.
  • the V-type dichroic combiner 308 includes two different dichroic coatings 310 and 311.
  • the coating 310 transmits green and red color and reflects blue color while the coating 311 transmits green and blue color and reflects red color.
  • the light emitting from green LED 302, guided by waveguide 305, passes through the dichroic coatings 310 and 311, while the light emitting from the blue LED 303, guided by waveguide 306, is reflected from the coating 310 and passes through the coating 311.
  • An optional glass volume 307 is attached to the exit surface of the red waveguide 304 to adjust the optical path length of the red LED 301 to equal that of the green and blue LED 301, 303.
  • the light emitting from the red LED 301, passing through the tapered waveguide 304 and glass volume 307, is reflected from the coating 311.
  • the optical axes of the red path, green path and blue path are coincident.
  • the function of the gap between the blue waveguide 306 and dichroic combiner 308 and the gap between the glass volume 307 and dichroic combiner 308 is similar to that described in FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 4 is another embodiment of the invention as shown in FIG. 3, where three lenses 407, 408 and 409 are attached to the red, green and blue waveguides 404, 405 and 406, respectively.
  • the light exiting from the three waveguides 404, 405 and 406 is further converged by three lenses 407, 408 and 409 and then enter to the V-type dichroic combiner 407 as described in FIG. 3. If the waveguide is made of solid glass rod, the lens and corresponding rod can be integrated into a one-piece optical component.
  • FIG. 5 shows yet another embodiment of the present invention where the system includes a red LED 501, a green LED 502, a blue LED 503, three tapered waveguides 504, 505 and 506, a cross-dichroic combiner 507 and two 45-degree prisms 508 and 509.
  • three LEDs are configured to be on the same plate, enabling the system to be more compact in size for the LED driver circuits and cooling.
  • Two 45-degree prisms 508 and 509 are arranged adjacent to two side surfaces of the non- polarized cross-dichroic combiner 507. Gaps or spaces are included between both of the 45-degree prisms 508, 509 and the non-polarized cross-dichroic combiner 507.
  • the 45-degree prisms may include a high reflection coating at the reflecting surface to increase light efficiency. Consequently, the light from the red LED 501, passing through the waveguide 504, is reflected from the 45-degree prism 508 and then reflected from the cross-dichroic combiner 507. Similarly, the light from the blue LED 503, passing through the waveguide 506 is reflected from the 45-degree prism 509 and then reflected from cross-dichroic combiner 507. The green light of LED 502, passing through the waveguide 505, transmits through the cross-dichroic combiner 507. As a result, the red, green and blue optical axes are coincident on the exit face of the non-polarized dichroic combiner 507.
  • the embodiment shown in FIG. 5 can be further improved by adding three lenses to the tapered waveguides.
  • Three lenses 607, 608 and 609 are attached to the red, green and blue waveguides 604, 605 and 606, respectively.
  • the light beams exiting from three waveguides 604, 605 and 606 are further converged by three lenses 607, 608 and 609 and then enter the cross- dichroic combiner 610.
  • the tapered waveguide is a solid glass rod, the lens and corresponding rod can be integrated to a one-piece optical component.
  • FIG. 6 may be further modified in the event that a collimating lens is required at the input of the waveguide.
  • FIG. 8 further illustrate a non-polarized V-type dichroic combiner 707, 810 that can replace the non-polarized cross-dichroic combiners in FIG. 5 and FIG. 6.
  • the system shown in FIG. 7 includes a red LED 701, a green LED 702, a blue LED 703, three tapered waveguides 704, 705 and 706, a V-type dichroic combiner 707, a glass volume 708 and two 45-degree prisms 709 and 710.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates the invention in FIG. 7 further improved through the addition of three lenses to the waveguides. In this embodiment, three lenses 807, 808 and 809 are attached to the red, green and blue waveguides 804, 805 and 806, respectively.
  • the advantages of utilizing a V-type dichroic combiner as compared to the cross-dichroic combiner are those that have been already discussed herein.
  • FIGs. 9, 10 and 11 illustrate embodiments used for polarized light applications where polarization recovery and recirculation are included to improve overall polarization efficiency.
  • the polarization recovery apparatus shown in FIG. 9 includes a polarizing beam split (PBS) 901, a 45-degree prism 902 and a half wave plate 903.
  • PBS polarizing beam split
  • the light 904 entering the entrance surface (the left surface) of PBS 901 is split into the s-polarized light 906 and the p-polarized light 905.
  • the p-component 905 propagates through PBS 901 while the s- component 906 is reflected upwardly through the 45-degree prism 902 to the half wave plate 903.
  • FIG. 10 shows yet another embodiment of a polarization recovery apparatus of the present invention.
  • the apparatus includes a PBS cube 911, a 45- degree prism 912, and a retro-reflective polarization rotator 913.
  • a retro-reflective polarization rotator can be found in U.S. Patent Publication No. 2004/0090763 which is herein incorporated by reference.
  • the principal advantage of this apparatus is that it is not sensitive to wavelength variations of the incoming light, temperature changes and polarization alignment errors.
  • the incident light 914 entering the PBS 911 is split into the s-polarized light 916 and the p-polarized light 915.
  • the p-component 915 transmits through the PBS 911.
  • a polarization rotator 913 is used to replace the half waveplate in order to rotate the polarization direction of the s-component 916 coming from the PBS 911 by rotating the polarization direction of the incoming beam by 90 degrees.
  • the otherwise unused s-component 916 After being reflected by the polarization rotator 913, the otherwise unused s-component 916 becomes a p-polarized beam 917 and passes through the PBS cube 911 to the prism 912.
  • the 45 -degree prism 912 thereafter redirects the p-polarized beam 917 in a propagation direction parallel to the direction of the p-component 915.
  • FIG. 11 illustrates still yet another alternative embodiment of a polarization recovery apparatus that includes a PBS cube 922, a 45-degree prism 921 , a quarter wave plate 923 and a mirror 924.
  • the light 925 entering the PB S 922 is split into s-polarized light 927 and p-polarized light 926.
  • the p-component 926 propagates through the PBS 922.
  • the s-component 927 propagates past the quarter wave plate 923 where it becomes circularly polarized. After being reflected from the mirror 924, it again passes through the quarter wave plate 923 and becomes p-polarized light.
  • the recovered p-component 928 passes through the PBS cube 922 to the prism 921.
  • the 45-degree prism 921 then redirects the beam 928 in a propagation direction parallel to the direction of p-component 926.
  • Each polarization recovery apparatus shown in FIGs. 9, 10 and 11 can be combined with any LED assembly shown in FIG. 1 - FIG. 8 to provide an LED color illumination system for polarized light projection applications.
  • Six exemplary embodiments are shown in FIG. 12 - FIG. 17.
  • FIG. 12 illustrates an embodiment of a color illumination apparatus with a polarization recovery system in accordance with the present invention.
  • the system includes a red LED 1001, a green LED 1002, a blue LED 1003, three tapered waveguides 1004, 1005 and 1006, three lenses 1007, 1008 and 1009, a non-polarized cross-dichroic combiner 1010, a PBS 1011, a 45-degree prism 1012, and a half wave plate 1013.
  • the light from the red LED 1001, passing through the waveguide 1004 is converged by lens 1007 and then reflected from the non-polarized cross-dichroic combiner 1010.
  • the light from the blue LED 1003, passing through the waveguide 1006, is converged by lens 1009 and then reflected from cross-dichroic combiner 1010.
  • the green light of LED 1002, passing through the waveguide 1005, is converged by lens 1008 and then transmits through the non-polarized cross-dichroic combiner 1010.
  • the red, green and blue axes are coincident on the exit face of the non-polarized dichroic combiner 1010.
  • the light output from the non-polarized cross-dichroic combiner 1010 is split by PBS 1011 into s-polarized light 1022 and p-polarized light 1021.
  • the p-component 1021 transmits through the PBS 1011 while the s-component 1022 is reflected upwardly and is further reflected by the 45-degree prism 1012 to the half wave plate 1013.
  • the half wave plate 1013 rotates the polarization state of the s-component 1022 to p-polarized component 1023 that propagates in a direction parallel to the direction of the p-component 1021.
  • the color illumination system shown in FIG. 10 is a combination of an LED assembly shown in FIG. 2 with the polarization recovery apparatus shown in FIG. 9.
  • FIG. 13 - FIG. 18 illustrate other exemplary embodiments of the color illumination system.
  • FIG. 13 illustrates the combination of the LED assembly shown in FIG. 2 with a polarization recovery apparatus shown in FIG. 10.
  • the embodiment in FIG. 14 joins the LED assembly shown in FIG. 2 and a polarization recovery apparatus shown in FIG. 11.
  • FIG. 15 is a combination of the LED assembly shown in FIG. 4 and the polarization recovery apparatus shown in FIG. 9.
  • FIG. 16 is a combination of the LED assembly shown in FIG. 4 and a polarization recovery apparatus shown in FIG. 10.
  • FIG. 17 is a combination of the LED assembly shown in FIG.4 and a polarization recovery apparatus shown in FIG. 11.
  • FIG. 18 is a combination of an LED assembly shown in FIG. 6 and a polarization recovery apparatus shown in FIG. 10.
  • the non-polarized cross-dichroic combiners or V-type combiners shown in FIG. 1 - FIG. 16 are all designed for non-polarized beams.
  • the transmission properties of the coatings inside the dichroic combiners are very similar for both p-component and s- component.
  • a polarizing dichroic combiner there is yet another type of dichroic combiner referred to as a "polarizing dichroic combiner.”
  • a polarizing dichroic combiner is designed for combining polarized incoming color beams. It will be evident to those skilled in that art that most of polarizing dichroic combiners on the market are the SPS-type. An SPS combiner reflects red and blue s-components of the light and transmits a green p-component.
  • the main advantage of the polarizing dichroic combiner over the non-polarized dichroic combiner is that it has steeper transitional curves between the pass wavelength band and the stop wavelength band so that loss in the transitional band can be reduced
  • FIG. 19 shows an embodiment of a light illumination apparatus of the present invention which utilizes a polarizing dichroic combiner.
  • the apparatus as shown in FIG. 19 includes a red LED 1701, a green LED 1702, a blue LED 1703, three tapered waveguides 1704, 1705 and 1706, three lenses 1707, 1708 and 1709, three polarizing beam splitter (PBS) cubes 1710, 1711 and 1712, three 45-degree prisms 1713, 1714 and 1715, three half wave plates 1716, 1717 and 1718, a polarizing cross-dichroic combiner 1719, and a polarized-retarder-stack plate 1720.
  • PBS polarizing beam splitter
  • the polarized-retarder-stack is known in the art and disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 5,751,384 and herein incorporated by reference.
  • the light from the red LED 1701 passes through the waveguide 1704 and lens 1707 to the PBS cube 1710.
  • the s-component is reflected from the PBS cube 1710 while the p-component passes through 1710 to the 45-degree prism 1713.
  • the p-polarized light exiting from the prism 1713 goes through the half wave plate 1716 and becomes s-polarized beam.
  • the light beam emitting from the blue LED 1703 and passing through the waveguide 1706 and lens 1709 is split by the PBS cube 1712.
  • the s-component is reflected from the PBS cube 1712 while the p- component passes through 1712 to the 45-degree prism 1715.
  • the p-polarized light exiting from the prism 1715 goes through the half wave plate 1718 and becomes s-polarized beam.
  • Both s-components namely, the s-component directly reflected from the PBS 1712 and the s-component exiting from the half wave plate 1718 are reflected by the polarizing cross-dichroic combiner 1719 and pass through the polarized-retarder-stack plate 1720.
  • the polarizing cross-dichroic combiner 1719 Different from the red and blue LED light paths wherein the light entering the polarizing cross-dichroic combiner is s-polarized, the light along green LED path entering the polarizing cross- dichroic combiner 1719 is p-polarized.
  • the light from the green LED 1702 passes through the waveguide 1705 and lens 1708 to the PBS cube 1711.
  • the p- component passes PBS 1711 while the s-component is reflected by the PBS 1711 and the 45-degree prism 1714.
  • the s-polarized light exiting from the prism 1714 goes through the half wave plate 1717 and becomes p-polarized.
  • Both p- components, the p-coniponent directly passing the PBS 1711 and the p- component exiting from the half wave plate 1717 pass through the polarizing cross-dichroic combiner 1719 and the polarized-retarder-stack plate 1720.
  • the polarized-retarder-stack plate 1720 selectively changes the polarization direction of the green beam while maintaining the polarization direction of red and blue beams.
  • FIGs. 20 -23 are diagrams illustrating light integrator and condenser lens systems. These systems are used for conveying non-polarized light from a dichroic combiner to a DMD panel.
  • FIG. 20 shows a condenser lens 2001 that is used to directly propagate a uniform output beam of light onto a DMD panel 2003.
  • a waveguide integrator 2101 and condenser lens 2103 are used to focus light onto a DMD panel 2103.
  • the waveguide 2101 may be tapered or an additional condenser lens may be used to focus light into the entrance of the rectangular waveguide 2101.
  • the output of the waveguide 2101 is projected by the focusing lens 2103 on the DMD panel 2105 and can be a tapered light pipe or a tapered rod integrator with increasing taper, decreasing taper or straight shape.
  • the shape of the exit surface of the waveguide 2101 should be proportional that of the DMD panel 2105.
  • FIG. 22 shows yet another embodiment of a light integrator and condenser lens system where a collimation lens 2201, a first lens array 2203, second lens array 2205 and a focusing lens 2207 are used to project light onto a DMD panel 2209.
  • the first lens array 2203 works to separate and focus the light while the second lens array 2205 forms an image of the pupil of each corresponding lens in the first lens array 2201.
  • the focusing lens 2207 then operates overlapping the images of the pupil from each of the lenses in the second lens array 2203 to provide uniform illumination to the DMD panel 2205.
  • FIG. 23 illustrates yet another embodiment where a condenser lens 2301 is used to focus light into an integrator pipe 2303 where a focusing lens 2305 is used to focus the light onto a DMD panel 2307.
  • the red, green and blue LED panels 101, 102, 103 as used in the preferred embodiment of the invention are manufactured of a shape or dimension proportional to that of the DMD panel 2003, 2105, 2209, 2309, which typically has an aspect ratio of 16:9 or 4:3.
  • the LED panel also has a corresponding aspect ratio of either 16:9 or 4:3 that is coordinated to a field stop or other devices used in the illumination path.
  • a 1:1 correspondence is provided such that the aspect ratio at the LED panel and the illumination path is equivalent to the aspect ratio of illuminating beam on the DMD panel 2003, 2105, 2209, 2309.
  • the light output from the LEDs is directly imaged onto the DMD panel 2003, 2105, 2209, 2309.
  • the LEDs used in the preferred embodiment of the invention are made substantially uniform. If a specific LED panel is comprised of an array of substantially uniform sub-light sources, then each LED panel is made such that the gaps between sub-light sources are minimized.
  • the present invention is directed to a polarized light illumination source using light beams emitted from multicolor LEDs as used with non- polarized DMD projection applications.
  • the invention offers an advantage by improving the color gamut of the imaging whereby unwanted UV or IR light is eliminated and the luminous efficiency of the light source is significantly increased.
  • the invention provides a polarized light illumination source that is comprised of at least one red, green and blue LED as the light source.
  • a plurality of tapered waveguides are arranged so as to achieve light homogenization, collimation and a light guide for the light source.
  • a nonpolarized dichroic combiner is used for mixing incoming beams to form a combined color light flux while a polarizing beam splitter (PBS) separates the non-polarized beam into two linearly polarized components.
  • PBS polarizing beam splitter
  • a polarization converter converts the polarity of an unusable polarized component to the polarity of a usable polarized component and a 45-degree prism redirects the recovered polarized beam toward a direction of illuminating an image display panel.
  • a number of light integrator and condenser lens systems are utilized to project non-polarized light from the dichroic combiner to the DMD panel.

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Cette invention concerne un système d'éclairage conçu pour projeter une image couleur sur un panneau d'affichage à micromiroirs numériques (DMD), lequel système comprend un ensemble d'éclairage à diodes électroluminescentes (DEL) (101, 102, 103), un mélangeur dichroïque (107) conçu pour fournir une source de lumière unique et un système de lentille de condenseur conçu pour orienter la lumière de la source de lumière unique sur le panneau d'affichage à micromiroirs numériques. Cette invention crée un système efficace et économique permettant de fournir une source de lumière uniforme non polarisée à un panneau d'affichage à micromiroirs numériques.
PCT/US2006/002489 2005-01-25 2006-01-25 Systeme d'eclairage a diodes electroluminescentes (del) pour matrice a micromiroirs et procede de production correspondant WO2006081243A1 (fr)

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