POLARIZED ILLUMINATION SYSTEM FOR LCD PROJECTOR

摘要

An illumination system (10) is described that efficiently produces linear polarized light for use in LCD projection. A polarizing beam splitter (16) and half-wave retarder plate (20) produce two adjacent collimated beams of light having a common polarization direction. These adjacent beams are spatially integrated (22) into a single collimated polarized beam whose aspect ratio is subsequently converted to match that of the LCD format.