An image display device which suppresses destruction of an image display panel due to static electricity carried by a phase difference film, and has excellent adhesiveness between the phase difference film and the image display panel even in a moisture-heat environment, and a circularly polarizing plate with a photosensitive adhesive. The image display device includes a circularly polarizing plate having a linear polarizer and a phase difference film, and an image display panel in this order from a viewing side, in which the phase difference film and the image display panel are bonded by a pressure-sensitive adhesive, the phase difference film has an optically anisotropic layer obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing at least one kind of polymerizable liquid crystal compound having a predetermined structure, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive contains a polymer having an acid value of 1 to 30 mgKOH/g and an antistatic agent.

The present invention provides: a laminate which has a polarizer and an optically anisotropic layer and has excellent thermal durability; and an organic electroluminescent device and a liquid crystal display device, which include the laminate. The laminate according to the embodiment of the present invention is a laminate having two substrates, and a polarizing plate disposed between the two substrates, in which the polarizing plate has an optically anisotropic layer and a polarizer, the optically anisotropic layer is formed of a composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound represented by Formula (I), the polarizer contains a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin, and a moisture permeability of the substrate is 10.sup.−3 g/m.sup.2.Math.day or less. ##STR00001##

An optical element includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer obtained by cholesterically aligning a liquid crystal compound, in which the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a region where a refractive index nx in a slow axis direction and a refractive index ny in a fast axis direction in a plane satisfy nx>ny, a helical axis of the cholesteric alignment is parallel to a thickness direction of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and a helical pitch in the cholesteric alignment gradually changes in the thickness direction of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer.

A device for combining light beams which interact with adjacently arranged pixels of a light modulator, having a beam splitting component, a beam combining component, and a beam superposition component. The beam splitting component is configured such that incident light beams are split into a first subbeam and a second subbeam so that the first subbeam propagates toward a first pixel of the light modulator and the second subbeam propagates toward a second pixel of the light modulator. The beam combining component is configured and arranged so that the first subbeam and the second subbeam are combined after interaction with pixels of the light modulator. The beam splitting component and the beam combining component are configured and arranged in such a way that a sum of optical path lengths of the first subbeam and the second subbeam is respectively constant for different angles of incidence.

A head-mounted apparatus include an eyepiece that include a variable dimming assembly and a frame mounting the eyepiece so that a user side of the eyepiece faces a towards a user and a world side of the eyepiece opposite the first side faces away from the user. The dynamic dimming assembly selectively modulates an intensity of light transmitted parallel to an optical axis from the world side to the user side during operation. The dynamic dimming assembly includes a variable birefringence cell having multiple pixels each having an independently variable birefringence, a first linear polarizer arranged on the user side of the variable birefringence cell, the first linear polarizer being configured to transmit light propagating parallel to the optical axis linearly polarized along a pass axis of the first linear polarizer orthogonal to the optical axis, a quarter wave plate arranged between the variable birefringence cell and the first linear polarizer, a fast axis of the quarter wave plate being arranged relative to the pass axis of the first linear polarizer to transform linearly polarized light transmitted by the first linear polarizer into circularly polarized light, and a second linear polarizer on the world side of the variable birefringence cell.

Provided is a display apparatus including a first display panel, a second display panel, and at least one light-absorbing layer. The first display panel has a first splicing surface. The second display panel has a second splicing surface opposite to the first splicing surface. The at least one light-absorbing layer is disposed on at least one of the first splicing surface and the second splicing surface.

A two-dimensional waveguide light multiplexer is described herein that can efficiently multiplex and distribute a light signal in two dimensions. An example of a two-dimensional waveguide light multiplexer can include a waveguide, a first diffraction grating, and a second diffraction grating disposed above the first diffraction grating and arranged such that the grating direction of the first diffraction grating is perpendicular to the grating direction of the second diffraction grating. Methods of fabricating a two-dimensional waveguide light multiplexer are also disclosed.

A multilayer film including: a first long-length substrate; and an optically anisotropic layer containing cured liquid crystal molecules, the optically anisotropic layer being directly disposed on a surface of the first substrate, wherein the surface of the first substrate has a surface tension of 35 to 45 mN/m and an orientation-regulation force generated by stretching, and the optically anisotropic layer has a slow axis along approximately the same direction as an orientation direction of the first substrate by the stretching; and an optical compensation sheet, a λ/4 wave plate, a polarizing plate, a circularly polarizing plate, a liquid crystal display device, and an organic electroluminescent display device having the optically anisotropic layer, as well as production methods thereof.

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting elements and at least one transmissive-reflective module, where the light emitting elements are arranged on the substrate; each of the light emitting elements includes a first electrode, a light emitting functional layer and a second electrode arranged along a direction vertical to the substrate and away from the substrate; the at least one transmissive-reflective module is arranged on a side, close to the substrate, of the first electrode of at least one of the light emitting elements, and/or on a side, away from the substrate, of the second electrode of at least one of the light emitting elements; the transmissive-reflective module is configured to switch between a transmissive state and a reflective state.

A laminate is capable of forming an orientation film formed by orienting a rod-like liquid crystal compound or a disk-like liquid crystal compound having a horizontal orientation ability or a vertical orientation ability with respect to a surface of the laminate, on the surface, by using an orientation restraining force of the surface, the laminate including: a cholesteric liquid crystal layer. An optical film sequentially includes: a support; a cholesteric liquid crystal layer; and an orientation film.