POLARIZATION CONVERSION ELEMENT, POLARIZATION ILLUMINATOR, DISPLAY USING THE SAME ILLUMINATOR, AND PROJECTION TYPE DISPLAY

摘要

A first optical element (200) for condensing an incident beam and forming a plurality of spatially separated intermediate beams, and a second optical element (300) capable of spatially separating the intermediate beams into two polarization beams, aligning the polarizing directions of the two polarization beams and forming one kind of polarization beam are provided. The second optical element (300) is provided with a light shading plate (370) for preventing the light from directly entering a portion corresponding to a reflecting surface of a polarization separating unit array, to improve the performance of separating the intermediate beams into two polarization beams. Accordingly, the intermediate beams can be converted into one kind of polarization beams, the polarizing directions of which are aligned, with a high efficiency.