发明授权
- 专利标题: Optical switch and display unit
- 专利标题(中): 光开关和显示单元
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申请号: US10044461申请日: 2001-10-23
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公开(公告)号: US06754408B2公开(公告)日: 2004-06-22
- 发明人: Atsushi Toda , Hirotaka Akao , Akira Ishibashi
- 申请人: Atsushi Toda , Hirotaka Akao , Akira Ishibashi
- 优先权: JPP2000-322273 20001023; JPP2001-020382 20010129
- 主分类号: G02B635
- IPC分类号: G02B635
摘要:
The present invention provides an optical switch for making part of incident light, which has been made incident on an optical waveguide, selectively emergent to a light emergence portion provided outside the optical waveguide. The optical switch includes a liquid crystal device for selective emergence of the incident light. An arbitrary layer of the liquid crystal device is set such that letting &Dgr;n be a difference between a refractive index n0 of the optical waveguide and a refractive index n1 of the arbitrary layer of the liquid crystal device, “d” be a thickness of the arbitrary layer, and &lgr; be a wavelength of the incident light, the values of &Dgr;n, “d”, and &lgr; satisfy a condition of 2.20×10−3≦|&Dgr;n·d·&lgr;−1|≦3.03×10−3. With this optical switch, the uniformity of a light emergence efficiency can be easily realized by making use of a small change region in which the light emergence efficiency is not largely varied. The present invention also provides a display unit using the optical switches.
公开/授权文献
- US20020159021A1 Optical switch and display unit 公开/授权日:2002-10-31