Optical retarder stack pair for transforming input light into polarization states having saturated color spectra
First Claim
1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a first retarder stack for receiving at least partially polarized input light and providing a first transformation of said input light into transformed light; and
a second retarder stack for receiving at least a portion of said transformed light and providing a second transformation that transforms said transformed light into output light, wherein said first and second transformations polarize said output light into at least a first polarization state having a first saturated spectrum and a second polarization state having a second saturated spectrum, said first retarder stack and said second retarder stack positioned such that an at least partially transmissive material can be placed between said first and second retarder stacks.
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Abstract
A retarder stack for transforming at least partially polarized light includes a first retarder and a second retarder. The first retarder has a first retardance and a first orientation and the second retarder has a second retardance and a second orientation both orientations with respect to the partially polarized light. The first retardance, first orientation, second retardance, and second orientation can be arranged to yield the desired polarization transformed light which includes a first spectrum and a second spectrum. The polarization of the first spectrum and the polarization of the second spectrum can be made orthogonal to each other. The polarizations can be linear or elliptical. If the polarization transformed light is linear, the directions of polarizations are different and in one case can be made perpendicular. If the polarization of the polarization transformed light is elliptical, then the polarizations are different and in on case can be made orthogonal in the general sense of orthogonality of polarization states.
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a first retarder stack for receiving at least partially polarized input light and providing a first transformation of said input light into transformed light; and a second retarder stack for receiving at least a portion of said transformed light and providing a second transformation that transforms said transformed light into output light, wherein said first and second transformations polarize said output light into at least a first polarization state having a first saturated spectrum and a second polarization state having a second saturated spectrum, said first retarder stack and said second retarder stack positioned such that an at least partially transmissive material can be placed between said first and second retarder stacks. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. An apparatus, comprising:
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a first retarder stack for receiving at least partially polarized input light and providing a first transformation of said input light into transformed light; and a second retarder stack for receiving at least a portion of said transformed light and providing a second transformation that transforms said transformed light into output light, wherein said first and second transformations polarize said output light into at least a first polarization state having a first saturated spectrum and a second polarization state having a second saturated spectrum, said first retarder stack and said second retarder stack positioned such that an at least partially transmissive material, when placed between said first and second retarder stacks, modifies the polarization of said transformed light in a known fashion; wherein, when the at least partially transmissive material is present between the first and second retarder stacks, the output light has a spectrum and polarization which is approximately the same as a spectrum and polarization of the input light. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. An apparatus, comprising:
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a first retarder stack for receiving at least partially polarized input light and providing a first transformation of said input light into transformed light having a spectrum and polarization that is different than the spectrum and polarization of said input light; and a second stack for receiving at least a portion of said transformed light and providing a second transformation that transforms said transformed light into output light with a spectrum and polarization which is substantially the same as the spectrum and polarization of said input light, said first retarder stack and said second retarder stack positioned such that an at least partially transmissive material can be placed between said first and second retarder stacks. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65)
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66. An apparatus, comprising:
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a first polarizer for receiving input light and outputting at least partially polarized light; a first retarder stack for receiving said at least partially polarized light and providing a first transformation of said at least partially polarized light into transformed light; and a second retarder stack for receiving at least a portion of said transformed light and providing a second transformation that transforms said transformed light into output light, wherein said first and second transformations polarize said output light into at least a first polarization state having a first saturated spectrum and a second polarization state having a second saturated spectrum, said first retarder stack and said second retarder stack positioned such that an at least partially transmissive material can be placed between said first and second retarder stacks; and a second polarizer for analyzing the polarization of said output light. - View Dependent Claims (67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85)
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