An illuminator includes a light source apparatus that outputs first light containing a first polarized light component, an afocal system that includes a first lens and a second lens so arranged that optical axis directions thereof coincide with each other and reduces the light flux diameter of the first light, a polarization adjusting element that converts the first light, while transmitting the first light, into second light containing the first polarized light component and a second polarized light component the polarization direction of which is perpendicular to the polarization direction of the first polarized light component, and a polarization separation element that separates the second light into light formed of the first polarized light component and light formed of the second polarized light component. The polarization adjusting element is located between the first lens and the second lens.

A projection apparatus and an illumination system thereof are provided. The illumination system includes a light source device, a light homogenization device, an optical transmission module, and an optical wavelength conversion module. The light homogenization device is disposed on a transmission path of a light source beam from the light source device. The optical transmission module is disposed on a transmission path of the light source beam from the light homogenization device. The optical wavelength conversion module is disposed on a transmission path of the light source beam from the optical transmission module and is configured to convert a first portion of the light source beam into a converted light beam. The converted light beam and a second portion of the light source beam form an illumination light beam. The light homogenization device is disposed outside a transmission path of the illumination light beam.

The invention provides a wavelength conversion device, including a first wavelength conversion portion and a second wavelength conversion portion. The second wavelength conversion portion includes a wavelength maintenance zone and a plurality of wavelength conversion structures. When the second wavelength conversion portion is switched onto a transmission path of the excitation beam, a portion of the excitation beam is incident on the wavelength maintenance zone and becomes a second color beam, and another portion of the excitation beam is incident on the wavelength conversion structures and converted into a predetermined color beam. A first chromaticity coordinate value of the second color beam in color space is (x, y), a second chromaticity coordinate value of the second color beam, after being combined with the predetermined color beam by the dichroic element, in the color space is (x, y), and xx and yy.

A light beam combiner and splitter included in a head-mounted display serving as an image display device, when combining and splitting light beams R, G, and B of respective colors from laser sources, combines first components of light R1, G1, and B1 with small amounts of light amongst components of separated light beams of respective colors, thus generating modulated light. This attenuates the laser beams emitted from the light source section.

An illuminator includes a light source apparatus that outputs first light containing a first polarized light component, an afocal system that includes a first lens and a second lens so arranged that optical axis directions thereof coincide with each other and reduces the light flux diameter of the first light, a polarization adjusting element that converts the first light, while transmitting the first light, into second light containing the first polarized light component and a second polarized light component the polarization direction of which is perpendicular to the polarization direction of the first polarized light component, and a polarization separation element that separates the second light into light formed of the first polarized light component and light formed of the second polarized light component. The polarization adjusting element is located between the first lens and the second lens.

The present invention relates to a laser-diode, liquid-crystal projector. In the present invention, a light source comprises a G laser diode emitting green light, a B laser diode emitting blue light, and an R laser diode emitting red light and provided such that a power application pin is positioned vertical to the power application pin of the G laser diode or B laser diode, and an optical structure appropriate therefor is proposed. According to the present invention, the directions of polarized lights of the R, G, and G light sources incident from an optical modulator formed from a liquid crystal can be consistent with each other by efficiently changing the arrangement of the pins of the laser diodes without using a separate complex optical element.

Disclosed are a projection device and a light source driving method thereof. The projection device includes a light source module. The light source driving method includes: driving a blue light source of a light source module to output a blue light beam at a first power and a second power respectively, and driving a red light source of the light source module to output a first red light beam at the first power and the second power respectively, wherein a color wheel module of the light source module converts the blue light beam to generate a second red light beam; sensing luminance of the first red light beam and the second red light beam, and correspondingly generating red light luminance information; calculating red light driving parameters of the red light source and the blue light source according to luminance information of the first red light beam and the second red light beam; and controlling, according to the red light driving parameters, electrical signals for driving the blue light source and the red light source, so as to maintain the sum of luminance of the red light beams to be approximate to or equal to a target red light luminance.

Disclosed are a projection device and a light source driving method thereof. The projection device includes a light source module. The light source driving method includes: driving a blue light source of a light source module to output a blue light beam at a first power and a second power respectively, and driving a red light source of the light source module to output a first red light beam at the first power and the second power respectively, wherein a color wheel module of the light source module converts the blue light beam to generate a second red light beam; sensing luminance of the first red light beam and the second red light beam, and correspondingly generating red light luminance information; calculating red light driving parameters of the red light source and the blue light source according to luminance information of the first red light beam and the second red light beam; and controlling, according to the red light driving parameters, electrical signals for driving the blue light source and the red light source, so as to maintain the sum of luminance of the red light beams to be approximate to or equal to a target red light luminance.

The present invention relates to a laser-diode, liquid-crystal projector. In the present invention, a light source comprises a G laser diode emitting green light, a B laser diode emitting blue light, and an R laser diode emitting red light and provided such that a power application pin is positioned vertical to the power application pin of the G laser diode or B laser diode, and an optical structure appropriate therefor is proposed. According to the present invention, the directions of polarized lights of the R, G, and G light sources incident from an optical modulator formed from a liquid crystal can be consistent with each other by efficiently changing the arrangement of the pins of the laser diodes without using a separate complex optical element.

A projector includes a light source, liquid crystal panels that modulate light emitted from the light source, a dichroic prism that combines modulated light fluxes modulated by the liquid crystal panels with one another into video light and outputs the video light, and a pixel shift device that changes the optical path of the video light output from the dichroic prism. The pixel shift device includes a glass plate on which the video light is incident and an electromagnetic actuator that causes the glass plate to swing. The electromagnetic actuator is arranged in a position outside the dichroic prism and different from the positions of the liquid crystal panels when viewed along the optical axis of the video light.