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Display with a wire grid polarizing beamsplitter

US7221420B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 10, 2006
Grant dateMay 22, 2007
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Expiry dateMay 10, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B5/3016
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system for creating a patterned polarization compensator (550) has a retardance characterization system (560) for optically scanning the spatially variant retardance of a spatial light modulator (210). A compensator patterning system (565) writes a spatially variant photo-alignment pattern on a substrate (555) of a polarization compensator. The patterned polarization compensator is completed by a process that includes providing a photo-alignment layer onto which spatially variant photo-alignment layer is formed, providing a liquid crystal polymer layer onto the photo-alignment layer, and then fixing the liquid crystal polymer layer to form a spatially variant retardance pattern into the structure of the patterned polarization compensator.

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