Advanced prism assemblies and prism assemblies using cholesteric reflectors
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Abstract
A prism assembly using only cholesteric layers for splitting input light into component light beams and individually directing the component light beams to modulating devices. Liquid coupling prism assembly components to produce reduced stress index and pathlength matched prism assemblies from low tolerance components. Pathlength matching in beam splitting devices using a variety of optical component shapes and beam splitting layer materials. Various prism assembly designs using cholesteric layers supported on planar and/or on optical component diagonals.
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67 Claims
- 1. A beam splitter comprising a cholesteric layer.
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6. A beam splitter, comprising:
- a first prism having a first diagonal;
a second prism having a second diagonal; and
a cholesteric layer disposed between the diagonals wherein the first prism and the second prism are abutted to each other along their diagonals at the cholesteric layer. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
- a first prism having a first diagonal;
- 15. A prism assembly, comprising a set of optical components including at least one cholesteric based beam splitter.
- 25. A prism assembly, comprising a set of beam splitters configured to split an incoming light beam into at least 3 different channels, wherein the beam splitters are constructed as pathlength matched beam splitters and the beam spliters are secured in prism assembly pathlength matched positions.
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33. A quad style prism assembly, comprising:
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an input beam splitter;
a first processing beam splitter comprising at least one processing face adaptable to a modulation device;
a second processing beam splitter comprising at least one processing face adaptable to a modulation device; and
an output re-combination beam splitter. wherein at least one of the beam splitters comprise a cholesteric based beam splitter. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65)
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66. A Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) High Definition monitor, comprising:
a Light Management System (LMS), comprising an LCOS based kernel having a prism assembly comprising a set of optical components including at least one cholesteric based beam splitter. - View Dependent Claims (67)
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