Abstract:
A beam steering system having first diffraction gratings, each one being associated with a corresponding one of a first plurality of grating vectors disposed substantially in a first plane. The gratings diffract optical energy from any one of a plurality of input directions of resonance to a corresponding one of a plurality of output directions. Second diffraction gratings are associated with a second plurality of grating vectors disposed substantially in a second plane. Each one of the second gratings diffracts optical energy from any one of a plurality of input directions of resonance to a corresponding one of a plurality of output directions. An arrangement directs a beam of optical energy to a selected one of the first gratings along a selected one of the plurality of input directions for the selected one of the first gratings, selected to provide the corresponding one of the output directions from the first gratings to be substantially equal to a selected one of the plurality of input directions for the selected one of the second gratings, thereby providing a selectable set of beam output directions.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display apparatus and a polarizer for a multi-domain vertical aligned liquid crystal display apparatus.SOLUTION: The display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display device, a first polarizer, a second polarizer, and a diffractive optical element. The first polarizer is disposed on the first substrate. The second polarizer is disposed between the second substrate and the backlight module. The diffractive optical element includes a first diffraction grating and is disposed on a light emitting side of the first polarizer. An azimuth angle the first diffraction grating is counted from an absorbing axis of the first polarizer as a standard.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily adjust the relative optical positions of optical modulation elements corresponding to respective colors and to suppress the shift of pixels for the respective colors due to heat generation in forming an image by optically modulating a plurality of colors. SOLUTION: The optical modulation device assembly includes: a supporting member 30; an optical modulation device 12 which is mounted on the supporting member 30 and modulates a plurality of line-shaped light beams having different wavelength bands; a driving part 16 which drives the optical modulation device 12; and a light transmission member 13 provided on the optical modulation device 12. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
Color-scanning grating-based backlighting includes a color scanning protocol to provide different colors of light in different regions of a plate light guide with an intervening dark region. A color-scanning grating-based backlight includes the plate light guide and a diffraction grating configured to diffractively couple out a portion of a guided light beam as a coupled-out light beam directed away from a plate light guide surface at a predetermined principal angular direction. The backlight further includes a multicolor light source configured to provide the different colors of light to the plate light guide as the guided light beam according to the color scanning protocol. Provided light of a first color in a first region is separated from provided light of a second color in a second region one or both by the intervening dark region and by a light-confining wall of the plate light guide.
Abstract:
Unidirectional grating-based backlighting includes a light guide and a diffraction grating at a surface of the light guide. The light guide is to guide a light beam and the diffraction grating is configured to couple out a portion of the guided light beam using diffractive coupling and to direct the coupled-out portion away from the light guide as a primary light beam at a principal angular direction. The diffraction grating is to further produce a secondary light beam directed into the light guide at an opposite one of the principal angular direction. The unidirectional grating-based backlighting further includes an angularly selective reflective layer within the light guide adjacent to the light guide surface that is configured to reflectively redirect the diffractively produced, secondary light beam out of the light guide in the direction of the primary light beam.
Abstract:
An input light pulse Pi, input at a constant incident angle to a transmission-type diffraction grating 20, is dispersed according to the wavelengths to be output at output angles according to the wavelengths, to be reflected by reflecting mirrors 41, 42, and 43 in series, and thereafter, the light rays are input at incident angles according to their wavelengths to the transmission-type diffraction grating 20, to be output at a constant output angle from the transmission-type diffraction grating 20. The optical path for the light rays of respective wavelength components, output at the constant output angle from the transmission-type diffraction grating 20, is folded back by a rectangular prism 40, to be input at a constant incident angle to the transmission-type diffraction grating 20, and the light rays are output at output angles according to their wavelengths, to be reflected by the reflecting mirrors 43, 42, and 41 in series, and are thereafter input at incident angles according to their wavelengths to the transmission-type diffraction grating 20. The light rays, input at the incident angles according to their wavelengths to the transmission-type diffraction grating 20, are coupled by the transmission-type diffraction grating 20, to be output as an output light pulse Po. Thereby, realizing the pulse width conversion device and the optical amplifier system, which are easily downsized.