Abstract:
There is provided a light source unit having a light source which emits a laser beam, a plurality of diffusing plates on which the laser beam is incident and which emit the laser beam incident thereon as diffuse light, and a driving mechanism which moves the plurality of diffusing plates, wherein the laser beam from the light source is incident on one diffusing plate of the plurality of diffusing plates, and diffuse light emitted from the one diffusing plate is incident on the other diffusing plate of the plurality of diffusing plates.
Abstract:
To provide a light source unit which can execute a projection with less consumed power and noise and a projector including this light source unit, a light source unit is provided which includes an excitation light source and a luminescent plate which includes a first luminescent light emitting area on which a resin mixed luminescent material layer containing a resin binder is provided and a second luminescent light emitting area on which a luminescent material containing no resin binder is provided, on to which first luminescent light emitting area and second luminescent light emitting area excitation light from the excitation light source is shone.
Abstract:
There is provided a light source unit including an excitation light source which emits excitation light, a luminescent material which receives excitation light from the excitation light source to emit luminous light, a diffuse plate on which the luminous light is incident, and a driving device which moves the diffuse plate so as to change an entering position of the luminous light on the diffuse plate.
Abstract:
A light source device includes: a first light emitting element that emits first wavelength band light; a fluorescence wheel including a fluorescence emission region with which fluorescence excited by the first wavelength band light is emitted as second wavelength band light; a second light emitting element that emits third wavelength band light; a combining unit that combines the first wavelength band light, the second wavelength band light, and the third wavelength band light; a color wheel; and a CPU that controls the first light emitting element, the second light emitting element, the fluorescence wheel, and the color wheel, wherein the CPU performs synchronization control on the fluorescence wheel and the color wheel, and performs control to shift a synchronization position of the color wheel with respect to the fluorescence wheel in accordance with an output mode.
Abstract:
A light source unit of the present invention includes a luminescent material plate, a joining plate on one side of which the luminescent material plate is disposed, a heat dissipating member disposed on the other side of the joining plate, and a heat conductive layer configured to thermally connect the joining plate and the heat dissipating member together and disposed between the joining plate and the heat dissipating member, and a heat conductivity of an area of the heat conductive layer which corresponds to the luminescent material plate is lower than a heat conductivity of a periphery of the area of the heat conductive layer which corresponds to the luminescent material plate.
Abstract:
There is provided a light source unit including an excitation light source emitting excitation light, and a luminescent member having a transmission portion transmitting excitation light from the excitation light source, a first luminescent material layer placed beside the transmission portion on one side of the luminescent member and a second luminescent material layer placed beside the transmission portion on the other side of the luminescent member, wherein the first luminescent material layer and/or the second luminescent material layer emits luminous light by being excited by the excitation light, and wherein a guiding optical system is provided which shines excitation light which has passed through the transmission portion from the excitation light source on to the first luminescent material layer and causes luminous light emitted from the first luminescent material layer to be incident on the transmission portion.
Abstract:
A light source unit includes: a first light emitting element configured to emit a first wavelength band light; a second light emitting element configured to emit a second wavelength band light; a luminescent wheel configured to have a first fluorescent light emitting region irradiated with the second wavelength band light to emit a third wavelength band light, and a second fluorescent light emitting region that emits a fourth wavelength band light including a wavelength band of the first wavelength band light and the third wavelength band light having a wavelength band adjacent to the first wavelength band light being provided in parallel in a circumferential direction; a color wheel configured to have a second transmissive region that transmits the first wavelength band light to the fourth wavelength band light, and a third transmissive region that transmits only the first wavelength band light or transmits only the first wavelength band light and the second wavelength band light being installed in parallel in the circumferential direction, and synchronously rotate with the luminescent wheel; and a controller configured to cause the second wavelength band light to be emitted in each output period and the first wavelength band light to be emitted in the output period in which the fourth wavelength band light is emitted, in a plurality of output periods in a frame.
Abstract:
The invention includes an excitation light source, a light distribution adjusting member on which excitation light from the excitation light source is incident, and a luminescent material which emits luminous light of a different wavelength from that of the excitation light by the excitation light which passes through the light distribution adjusting member being shone on thereto, wherein the excitation light source is disposed so that the excitation light is incident on a light incident surface of the light distribution adjusting member at a predetermined angle.
Abstract:
A projection apparatus includes a light source with light emitting devices of a plurality of colors, a drive unit configured to drive the light emitting devices of the plurality of colors so as to orderly emit single-color light and mixed-color light, an input unit configured to input an image signal, a projection unit configured to form and emit an optical image corresponding to an image signal input by the input unit, using the single-color light and the mixed-color light, and a control unit configured to emit the mixed-color light in a part of a light emission period of the mixed-color light and switch off the light emitting devices during a rest of the part of the light emission period, based on the image signal input by the input unit.
Abstract:
A light source unit includes an optical wheel having a plurality of segment areas, the segment areas including at least two luminescent material layers having different characteristics and a transmission portion provided in a circumferential direction. The light source unit further includes a rotation driving unit for driving to rotate the optical wheel, an excitation light source for shining light onto the optical wheel, a light emitting element, and a light guiding optical system for collecting a light beam from the optical wheel and a light beam from the light emitting element to a same optical path. The excitation light source is selectively turned on to illuminate the transmission portion or the at least two luminescent material layers, and the light emitting light source is turned on for a period of time during which the excitation light source does not shine the excitation light.