LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20140028984A1
• Filed: 04/05/2011
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd. (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Osaka, Akihiro
• Application Number:
  US14/009,520
• Publication Number:
  US 20140028984A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 353/31
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/008 in the form of devices for effecting sequential colour changes, e.g. colour wheels
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/142 Adjusting of projection optics
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/2013 Plural light sources
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/204 using secondary light emission, e.g. luminescence or fluorescence using different colours G03B33/00; if related to video signals H04N9/3197
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/208 Homogenising, shaping of the illumination light
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 33/06 by additive-colour projection apparatus

Abstract

A light source apparatus for illuminating an image formation element, includes: a substrate; a driving source that rotates the substrate; a groove formed on a surface of the substrate so as to surround a rotational axis of the substrate; a phosphor layer formed in the groove; a laser light source that emits laser light delivered to the phosphor layer; and an optical system that guides first light emitted from the phosphor layer excited by the laser light, to the image formation element.

Claims

1. A light source apparatus for illuminating an image formation element, comprising:

a substrate;

a driving source that rotates said substrate;

a groove formed on a surface of said substrate so as to surround a rotational axis of said substrate;

a phosphor layer formed in said groove;

a laser light source that emits laser light delivered to said phosphor layer; and

an optical system that guides first light emitted from said phosphor layer excited by the laser light, to the image formation element.

2. The light source apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a width of said groove is smaller than a spot size of the laser light on said substrate.

3. The light source apparatus according to claim 1, comprising a first solid light source that emits second light belonging to a wavelength band different from a wavelength band to which the first light belongs, wherein

said optical system guides the first light and the second light to the image formation element.

4. The light source apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a first phosphor layer and a second phosphor layer are formed in said groove along a rotating direction of said substrate,

the first phosphor layer emits the first light by being exciting by the laser light,

the second phosphor layer emits third light by being excited by the laser light, the third light belonging to a wavelength band different from wavelength bands to which the first light and the second light belong, and

said optical system guides the first to the third light to the image formation element.

5. The light source apparatus according to claim 3, comprising a second sold light source that emits third light belonging to a wavelength band different from wavelength bands to which the first light and the second light belong, and

said optical system guides the first to the third light to the image formation element.

6. The light source apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a reflection film is formed on an inner surface of said groove, and said phosphor layers are stacked on said reflection film.

7. The light source apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the width of said groove is constant.

8. The light source apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the width of said groove gradually increases from a back surface side toward a front surface side of said substrate.

9. A projection display apparatus comprising an image formation element, an illumination optical system that illuminates said image formation element, and a projection optical system that projects light emitted from said image formation element,

wherein said illumination optical system includes the light source apparatus according to claim 1.