Backlight with collimating reflective polarizer

    公开(公告)号:US12147122B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-19

    申请号:US18558425

    申请日:2022-05-17

    Abstract: A backlight including a front reflector disposed on a back reflector and defining a cavity therebetween. For a visible wavelength range and for a first incident angle of less than 5 degrees, the front reflector has an average transmittance of less than 20% for the incident light polarized along a first direction, and an average transmittance of between 20% and 85% for the incident light polarized along an orthogonal second direction. For a visible wavelength range and for a second incident angle of greater than 40 degrees, the front reflector has an average transmittance of less than 40% for each of the first and second directions. For at least a first wavelength in an infrared wavelength range, the front reflector has a transmittance of greater than about 40% for each of the first and second incident angles and for each of the first and second directions. For each of the first and second incident angles, for the incident light polarized along each of the first and second directions, the back reflector has a transmittance of greater than 30% for the first infrared wavelength, and an average transmittance of less than 20% in the visible range.

    Backlight and Display System
    17.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240162204A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-16

    申请号:US18550301

    申请日:2022-04-04

    CPC classification number: H01L25/0753 G02B5/305 H01L27/156 H01L33/505

    Abstract: A backlight includes a plurality of light sources, a reflective polarizer disposed on the plurality of light sources, and an optical film disposed between the reflective polarizer and the plurality of discrete spaced apart light sources. For a substantially collimated incident light, for a visible wavelength range, and for a first incident angle of less than about 5 degrees, the reflective polarizer has an average optical reflectance of at least 60% when the incident light is p-polarized and an average optical transmittance of at least 60% when the incident light is s-polarized. For the average of p-polarized and s-polarized incident lights and the visible wavelength range, the optical film has an average optical transmittance T1 for the first incident angle, and an average transmittance T2 for a second incident angle of greater than about 35 degrees, such that T1/T2≥1.5.

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