Optical systems for reflective LCD's

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PATENT NO 6490087
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09546241

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Optical systems for use with reflective LCDs (8,9,32,34,36) are provided. The systems include a polarization beam splitter (5) which can be composed of polarization beam splitting cubes (26) having sheet polarizers (30) and/or half wave plates (28) at their mating surfaces. By orienting the half wave plates (28) so that they convert S polarization to P polarization and P polarization to S polarization, the polarization beam splitter (5) can provide a high contrast ratio at a viewing screen between light from the 'on' and 'off' pixels of the reflective LCDs (8,9,32,34,36).

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3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYP O BOX 33427 ST PAUL MN 55133-3427

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Fulkerson, E Gregory Amelia, OH 7 201
Magarill, Simon Cincinnati, OH 64 1330
Rudolph, John D Cincinnati, OH 7 565

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