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WO2006008666A1 - Dispositif de polarisation - Google Patents

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WO2006008666A1
WO2006008666A1 PCT/IB2005/052092 IB2005052092W WO2006008666A1 WO 2006008666 A1 WO2006008666 A1 WO 2006008666A1 IB 2005052092 W IB2005052092 W IB 2005052092W WO 2006008666 A1 WO2006008666 A1 WO 2006008666A1
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Andreas Drauschke
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    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B5/00—Optical elements other than lenses
    • G02B5/30—Polarising elements
    • G02B5/3025—Polarisers, i.e. arrangements capable of producing a definite output polarisation state from an unpolarised input state
    • G02B5/3058—Polarisers, i.e. arrangements capable of producing a definite output polarisation state from an unpolarised input state comprising electrically conductive elements, e.g. wire grids, conductive particles
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B5/00—Optical elements other than lenses
    • G02B5/18—Diffraction gratings
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    • G02—OPTICS
    • G02B—OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS
    • G02B5/00—Optical elements other than lenses
    • G02B5/18—Diffraction gratings
    • G02B5/1809—Diffraction gratings with pitch less than or comparable to the wavelength

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  • the present invention relates to a polarizing device arranged to produce a polarized light, beam from a source light beam that has a first and a second polarization direction, wherein the device transmits light of the first polarization direction and reflects light of the second polarization direction.
  • Prior art wire grid polarizers typically exploit the feature that a metallic grating comprised in the polarizer reflect one polarization state and transmit the other, if the grating period d, i.e. the center-to-center distance of generally parallelly arranged elongated elements that form the grating, is much smaller than the wavelength ⁇ of incident light on the grating.
  • the grating period d i.e. the center-to-center distance of generally parallelly arranged elongated elements that form the grating
  • Different propagation conditions of stimulated surface plasmons of the metallic grating are the cause of the polarizing effect.
  • the polarizing effect depends on a number of different grating parameters, in particular on the grating period d, the grating depth h, i.e. the thickness of the grating, the filling factor c (which equals the width/of the grating divided by the grating period d), the constant refractive indices ni and 723 of the respective medias separated by the grating, and distribution of refractive indices ri2(x, y, z) in the grating.
  • Fig. 1 Light is incident on the grating under an angle ⁇ .
  • light beams that are incident on a grating typically results in a number of light beams, both transmitted light beams 71,- to 3 ⁇ and reflected light beams R. k to Ri.
  • the angles ⁇ n for diffracted light beams are defined by the well-known grating equation:
  • Equation 1 shows that only diffractions of order zero ("zeroth-order") exist if the grating period is small enough, where m specifies the order.
  • R 2 refractive indices
  • m specifies the order.
  • the grating will function like a wire grid polarizer.
  • the grating production process defines a lower limit of the grating period d, the grating depth h and the filling factor c are the only design parameters which may be varied and experimented with.
  • a grating with a carrier grating period d c which is called the local period of the grating, can be modulated for each individual element in the grating. If the modulation frequency is not too high, such a grating propagates all energy in a direction specified in accordance with equation (1) using the carrier grating period d c . Because of the modulation, the energy distribution in that specified direction may be affected.
  • US Patent no. 6,108,131 discloses a polarizer apparatus having an arrangement of generally parallelly elongated elements disposed in a source light beam.
  • the elements interact with the electromagnetic waves of the source light beam to generally (i) pass light having a polarization oriented perpendicular to the length of the elements, and (ii) reflect light having a polarization oriented parallel to the length of the elements.
  • the passed light defines a passed beam with a first polarization and the reflected light defines a reflected beam with a second polarization.
  • the elements are located in generally parallel arrangement with a center-to-center spacing, or pitch, of the elements which is smaller than the wavelength of light.
  • the pitch will be less than 400 nm, and preferably less than one third of the wavelength of light, or approximately 130 nm.
  • each element has a width that may range from 10% to 90% of the pitch.
  • spaces separating the elements have a width that will range from 90% to 10% of the pitch.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a polarizing device that solves the above given problems and which polarizing device has a high performance, but which uses a pitch that is greater than the wavelength of light incident on the device.
  • a polarizing device arranged to produce a polarized light beam from a source light beam that has a first and a second polarization direction, wherein the device transmits light of the first polarization direction and reflects light of the second polarization direction, in accordance with claim 1.
  • a polarizing device comprising a number of parallelly arranged conducting means, which means polarize the unpolarized light beam, wherein the number of conducting means has a pitch that is greater than the wavelength of the source light beam, and a carrier pitch that differs for at least two of the parallelly arranged conducting means.
  • An idea of the present invention is to provide a polarizing device, such as a grating, having a strong polarizing effect, but which device employs a relatively large grating period, or pitch, as compared with prior art polarizers.
  • the effective grating period of the polarizing device according to the present invention will be much larger than the smallest wavelength of the source light beam incident on the polarizing device. Due to the fact that a carrier grating is employed, contrast ratio and polarization efficiency can be maximized.
  • the polarizing device may advantageously be implemented in, for example, front and rear projection systems.
  • the present invention is advantageous, since "binary", or unmodulated, gratings with a large grating period in comparison with the wavelength of the incident light do not show a strong polarizing effect.
  • a designer of gratings is not confined to small grating periods.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a polarizing device in the form of a grating and parameters employed to define the grating used in the present invention
  • Fig. 2 shows a grating in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
  • Fig. 3 shows a comparison of transmission efficiency of the zeroth diffraction order between a binary grating and a carrier grating for TE and TM polarization, depending on the wavelength of incident light;
  • Fig. 4 shows transmission efficiency of TE polarization depending on the wavelength of light incident on the grating according to the present invention
  • Fig. 5 shows transmission efficiency of TM polarization depending on the wavelength of light incident on the grating according to the present invention
  • Fig. 6 shows contrast depending on the wavelength of light incident on the grating according to the present invention
  • Fig. 7 shows an example of a projection display system comprising the polarizing device.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a polarizing device in the form of a grating and parameters employed to define the grating used in the present invention.
  • Prior art wire grid polarizers typically reflect one polarization state and transmit the other if the grating period d is much smaller than the wavelength ⁇ of light L incident on the grating.
  • the grating period d is the center-to-center distance of parallelly arranged elongated elements E that form the grating.
  • the polarizing effect depends on a number of different grating parameters, in particular said grating period d, the grating depth h, i.e.
  • the light Z is incident on the grating under an angle ⁇ , and the incident light results in a number of light beams, both transmitted light beams 71; to 7 ⁇ and reflected light beams R- k to Ri.
  • Fig. 2 illustrates a polarizing device in the form of a grating in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • the new design approach introduced by the present invention combines the advantages of both wired grid polarizers in the prior art and a modulated high frequency carrier grating to create a polarizing device which may be adapted, and ideally optimized, such that is attains a specific optical function required to satisfy a specific optical requirement.
  • a carrier grating period d c of 72 nm has been employed.
  • the smallest wavelength ⁇ of the incident light is 400 nm.
  • the polarizing device proposed by the present invention a designer of gratings is given a greater degree of freedom, since he is not confined to using small grating periods in the design process.
  • Employing pulse density modulation or pulse width modulation to modulate the carrier grating may optimize the transmission efficiency.
  • These modulation techniques are known by the skilled person, and it should be clear that the skilled person realizes that any other known appropriate modulation technique can be employed.
  • the refractive index ni is that of glass and the refractive index «3 for a substrate in which the grating is located is 1.0.
  • the grating itself is formed of a mixture of glass and aluminum.
  • the thickness h of the grating is typically approximately 150 nm.
  • Fig. 3 shows that the efficiency of TM polarization advantageously may be maximized by employing the grating of the present invention.
  • the dotted curve shows the efficiency of a binary grating.
  • the efficiency of the binary grating peaks at 90% for a ⁇ /d ratio of approximately 2.2. For greater ⁇ /d ratios, the efficiency decreases rapidly.
  • the unbroken curve shows the efficiency of a polarizer employing carrier gratings.
  • the efficiency of the carrier grating continuously lies slightly above 90%, even though the ⁇ /d 'ratio steadily increases. This is highly advantageous.
  • An object of the grating of the present invention is to have a minimum contrast ratio C min of 300 and a maximum of transmission efficiency for TM polarization.
  • Fig. 4 shows transmission efficiency ⁇ of TE polarization depending on the wavelength ⁇ of light incident on the grating according to the present invention.
  • Fig. 5 shows transmission efficiency ⁇ of TM polarization depending on the wavelength ⁇ of light incident on the grating according to the present invention.
  • the minimum efficiency ⁇ m j, is 81.2%
  • the average efficiency ⁇ avg is 84.5%
  • the maximum efficiency ⁇ max is 89.2%.
  • Fig. 7 shows an example of a projection display system 10 for projection image information.
  • the projection display system comprises a light source 11 for generating a light beam, a reflector 12 and the new polarizing device 13.
  • the projection display system 10 comprises a reflective liquid crystal display panel 14 for modulation the polarization direction of the transmitted light beam with the image information.
  • An example of a reflective liquid crystal display is a liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) device.
  • the projection display system comprises projection optics 15 for projection the modulated light beam and a screen 16. In operation, the light source 11 generates a light beam and the reflector 12 directs the generated light beam 17 to the polarizing device 13.
  • LCOS liquid crystal on silicon
  • the polarizing device reflects a first linearly polarized light beam having a first polarization direction and transmits a second linearly polarized light beam 18, having a second polarization direction perpendicular to the first polarization direction, to the LCOS device 14.
  • the operation of the LCOS device is well known to the skilled person.
  • the LCOS device 14 modulates the direction of polarization of the incident light beam and reflects the light beam towards the projection optics 15 via the polarizing device 13.
  • the polarizing device 13 reflects only the component of reflected light beam 19 with the first polarization direction and thus converts the polarization modulation in an amplitude modulation of the light beam.
  • the projection optics projects the modulated light beam 19 on the screen 16.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif de polarisation conçu pour produire un faisceau de lumière polarisée depuis un faisceau de lumière source (L). le but de l'invention consiste en un dispositif de polarisation, tel qu'un réseau, exerçant un effet de polarisation puissant mais mettant en application une période de réseau (d),ou pas, relativement élevée , par rapport aux polariseurs de l'état actuel de la technique. La période de réseau effective (d) de ce dispositif de polarisation sera beaucoup plus élevée que la longueur d'onde (μ) la plus petite du faisceau de lumière source venant frapper le dispositif de polarisation. L'utilisation d'un réseau porteur (dc) permet d'optimiser le rapport de contraste (CTM,TE) et l'efficacité de polarisation (θ). Ce dispositif de polarisation peut être mis en application, de manière avantageuse, par exemple, dans des systèmes de projection et de rétroprojection.
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JP2000284117A (ja) * 1999-03-30 2000-10-13 Fuji Elelctrochem Co Ltd グリッド偏光子及びその製造方法
EP1160589A1 (fr) * 2000-05-31 2001-12-05 Canon Kabushiki Kaisha Elément optique diffractif et système optique l'utilisant
JP2002365416A (ja) * 2001-06-06 2002-12-18 Asahi Glass Co Ltd 偏光性回折素子および光ヘッド装置
JP2003294947A (ja) * 2002-04-08 2003-10-15 Ricoh Co Ltd 偏光分離素子及びその製造方法

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