Abstract:
A display device comprising a light source and having an optical waveguide, a louver, an anisotropic scattering sheet, and a transmissive liquid crystal panel disposed along the path of light emitted from the light source. The light-restricting direction of the louver is tilted at an angle α from the Y-axis direction. The value of the angle α is set so that the arrangement direction of moiré created between the louver and the liquid crystal panel approaches the X-axis direction. A plurality of belt-shaped convex portions extending in the Y-axis direction are formed on the surface of the anisotropic scattering sheet, and are configured so that the scattering direction of the light has anisotropy. Specifically, scattering in the X-axis direction is increased, and scattering in the Y-axis direction is reduced. Moiré can thereby be reduced in a display device having increased directivity of the display.
Abstract:
An illumination device comprises a light source that includes a solid-state light source whose peak wavelength is set in the red wavelength band, a light source that includes a solid-state light source whose peak wavelength is set in the green wavelength band, a light source that includes a solid-state light source whose peak wavelength is set in the blue wavelength band, and a color synthesis optical element that combines P-polarized colored light incident from one light source and S-polarized colored light incident from the other two light sources. One light source includes at least one solid-state light source whose peak wavelength is set in the wavelength band of the color corresponding to one of the other light sources.
Abstract:
Provided is an optical element that highly efficiently radiates light with high directivity at low etendue. The optical element includes a light emission layer (103) generating an exciton to emit light, a plasmon excitation layer (105) having a higher plasma frequency than a light emission frequency of the light emission layer (103), an output layer (107) converting light or a surface plasmon generated on an upper surface of the plasmon excitation layer (105) into light with a predetermined output angle to output the light, and a dielectric layer (102). In the optical element, a real part of an effective dielectric constant with respect to the surface plasmon is higher in an upper side portion than the plasmon excitation layer (105) than in a lower side portion than the plasmon excitation layer (105); a dielectric constant with respect to the light emission frequency of the light emission layer (103) is higher in a lowest layer than in a layer adjacent to a lower side of the plasmon excitation layer (105); and assuming that a radiation angle of a surface plasmon-derived highly directional radiation from the plasmon excitation layer (105) to the output layer (107) side is θout,spp and a radiation angle of an optical waveguide fundamental mode-derived highly directional radiation is θout,light, an absolute value of a difference between the θout,spp and the θout,light is less than 10 degrees.