Abstract:
Display systems are described including augmented 1-dimensional pixel arrays and scanning mirrors. In one example, a pixel array includes first and second columns of pixels, relay optics configured to receive incident light and to output the incident light to a viewer, and a scanning mirror disposed to receive the light from the first and second columns of pixels and to reflect the received light toward the relay optics. The scanning mirror may move between a plurality of positions while the first and second columns emit light in temporally spaced pulses so as to form a perceived image at the relay optics having a higher resolution relative to the pixel pitch of the individual columns. Foveated rendering may provide for more efficient use of power and processing resources.
Abstract:
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus is a retinal scanning type display apparatus, and includes a low output laser whose operational current is less than that of a standard output laser; a shunting element that is connected in parallel with the low output laser; and a drive circuit that supplies a current to the low output laser and the shunting element. The drive circuit is a drive circuit for the standard output laser capable of adjusting a current value on a discrete basis in a range of an operational current that is higher than the operational current of the low output laser.
Abstract:
This projector (100, 200) includes a laser light generation portion (23, 24, 25), a projection portion (28) scanning laser light, and a speckle noise reducing projection screen (1). The projection screen includes a lens member (11) including a plurality of lens portions (111) splitting the laser light and a member (12) arranged to be opposed to the lens member, having an incident surface (122) and a diffusion portion. The diffusion portion of the diffusion member is arranged at a position apart by a distance larger than the focal length of the lens member along an optical axis (114) with respect to the optical principal surface (113) of the lens member.
Abstract:
A laser beam (L50) generated by a laser light source (50) is reflected by a light beam scanning device (60) and irradiated onto a hologram recording medium (45). On the hologram recording medium (45), an image (35) of a scatter plate is recorded as a hologram by using reference light that converges on a scanning origin (B). The light beam scanning device (60) bends the laser beam (L50) at the scanning origin (B) and irradiates the laser beam onto the hologram recording medium (45). At this time, scanning is carried out by changing a bending mode of the laser beam with time so that an irradiation position of the bent laser beam (L60) on the hologram recording medium (45) changes with time. Regardless of an irradiation position of the beam, diffracted light (L45) from the hologram recording medium (45) produces a reproduction image (35) of the scatter plate on the spatial light modulator (200). The modulated image of the spatial light modulator (200) is projected onto a screen (400) by a projection optical system (300).
Abstract:
There is provided a light source device which can miniaturize a two-dimensional image display device as small as possible. The light source device is provided with three coherent light sources (11a), (11b), and (11c) corresponding to red, blue, and green; prisms (12a) and (12c) for reflecting lights emitted from the coherent light sources (11a) and (11c); and a diffraction part (20) comprising a single volume hologram on which plural gratings are multiply-formed, which gratings diffract the light emitted from the coherent light source (11b), and the lights that are emitted from the coherent light sources (11a) and (11c) and reflected by the prisms (12a) and (12b) so that these lights propagate in the same optical path.
Abstract:
A change in the white balance caused due to the temperature is reduced in an image display device using MEMS and a laser light source. An image processing unit of the device superposes a signal based on a first measured value of a light quantity at a first temperature on a image signal to be supplied to the laser light source. An amplification factor of the light source drive unit is changed so that a second measured value at a second temperature comes close to the first measured value at the first temperature as a target value based on the second measured value at which the light quantity of light generated at the laser light source is measured at the second temperature different from the first temperature on the signal based on the first measured value.
Abstract:
A beam combiner includes a first beam-input face, a beam-output face, and first and second reflectors. The first beam-input face receives first and second beams of electromagnetic energy respectively having a first and second wavelengths. The first reflector reflects the first received beam toward the beam-output face, and the second reflector passes the first beam from the first reflector and reflects the received second beam toward the beam-output face. In one alternative, the first beam-input face also receives a third beam of electromagnetic energy having a third wavelength, the beam combiner includes a third reflector that reflects the received third beam toward the beam-output face, and the first and second reflectors pass the third beam from the third reflector. In another alternative, the beam combiner includes a second beam-input face that receives a third beam directed toward the beam-output face, and the first and second reflectors pass the third beam
Abstract:
A low power, edge-emitting ridge laser diode formed from a semiconductor heterostructure having an active layer sandwiched between n- and p-type layers, the active layer forming a gain medium of width W. Front and back reflectors of reflectivity Rf and Rb are arranged on opposing side facets of the semiconductor heterostructure to form a cavity of length L containing the active layer which thus forms the gain medium with internal loss αi. To achieve stable, low power operation close to threshold, the laser diode is configured with: width W: 1 µm ≤ W ≤ 2 µm; cavity length L: 100 µm ≤ L ≤ 600 µm; internal loss αi: 0 cm -1 ≤ αi ≤ 30 cm -1 ; back reflectivity Rb: 100 ≥ Rb ≥ 80%; and front reflectivity Rf: 100 ≥ Rf ≥ 60%. The laser diode has a characteristic slope efficiency, for output powers