A display device includes a light source, a spatial light modulator, and an optical assembly. The light source is configured to provide illumination light and the spatial light modulator is positioned to receive the illumination light. The optical assembly includes a first reflective surface with an aperture and a second reflective surface that is opposite to the first reflective surface. The optical assembly is positioned relative to the light source so that at least a first portion of the illumination light received by the optical assembly is reflected by the second reflective surface toward the first reflective surface, is reflected by the first reflective surface toward the second reflective surface, and is transmitted through the second reflective surface. A method performed by the display device is also disclosed.

A display device includes a light source, a spatial light modulator, and an optical element. The optical element includes a reflective surface. The optical assembly is positioned relative to the light source so that at least a portion of the illumination light received by the optical element is reflected at the reflective surface back toward the light source. The spatial light modulator is positioned to receive at least a portion of the illumination light reflected by the reflective surface. A method performed by the display device is also disclosed.

A device includes a waveguide, an in-coupling element, and an out-coupling element coupled with the waveguide. The waveguide, the in-coupling element, and the out-coupling element are configured to deliver a plurality of portions of an image light to an eye-box of the device. At least one of the in-coupling element or the out-coupling element includes a polarization selective diffractive element. The polarization selective diffractive element includes a grating including a plurality of microstructures defining a plurality of grooves filled with a passive optically anisotropic material having a first effective refractive index along a groove direction of the grooves and a second effective refractive index along an in-plane direction perpendicular to the groove direction. One of the first effective refractive index or the second effective refractive index substantially matches with a refractive index of the microstructures.

The invention relates to a light guide block made up of a plurality of light guide rods (9) that are molded in a curable filler material, wherein for manufacturing the light guide block (1, 2), the curable filler material is fillable into an at least half-open trough (3), the light guide rods (9), as plastic injection-molded parts or plastic molded parts, being molded onto surfaces (4-8) of the trough (3) that is made, at least partially or in sections, of light-conducting plastic.

Foldable and folded light guide articles are described. Foldable light guide articles include a backing, a light guide disposed upon the backing and a prism disposed upon the backing adjacent to the light guide such that when the backing is folded about an axis between the prism and the light guide, a side of the prism is positioned adjacent to and aligned with an end of the light guide. Folded light guide articles include a light guide, a first prism and a second prism. The first prism is disposed adjacent to and aligned with an end of the light guide. The second prism is disposed adjacent to and aligned with the first prism with a low-index material separating the first prism and the second prism.

A backlight unit including a frame; a substrate located on one side of the frame; a plurality of light assemblies mounted on the substrate; a light guide plate configured to guide light emitted by the light assembly; and a reflection sheet located between the light guide plate and the frame and configured to reflect light emitted by the plurality of light assemblies. In addition, the light guide plate includes a first block including a plurality of light guide areas configured to emit light emitted by a corresponding first set of light assemblies; and a second block including a plurality of light guide areas configured to emit light emitted by a corresponding second set of light assemblies.

A self-lit display panel includes a photonic integrated circuit payer including an array of waveguides and an array of out-couplers for out-coupling portions of the illuminating light through pixels of the panel. The self-lit display panel may include a transparent electronic circuitry layer backlit by the photonic integrated circuit layer; the two layers may be on a same substrate or on opposed substrates defining a cell filled with an electro-active material. The configuration allows for chief ray engineering, zonal illuminating, and separate illumination with red, green, and blue illuminating light.

A lamp, a lamp system, a method for assembling a lamp system, and a method for disassembling a lamp system are provided. The lamp includes frame body, fixing mechanism, light guide plate, light source, electrical connecting assembly and suspension member. The fixing mechanism has a side surface, a top surface and a groove, and the groove extends from the side surface to the top surface. The groove has a first end and a second end respectively on the side surface and the top surface. The light guide plate, the light source and the fixing mechanism are disposed on the frame body. The electrical connecting assembly is disposed on the frame body. The electrical connecting assembly is connected to the light source to form an electrical loop. One end of the suspension member is passed through the groove from the first end and is positioned in the second end.

An illuminator for a display panel includes a light source for providing a light beam and a lightguide coupled to the light source for receiving and propagating the light beam along the substrate. The lightguide includes an array of out-coupling gratings that runs parallel to the array of pixels for out-coupling portions of the light beam from the lightguide such that the out-coupled light beam portions propagate through the substrate and produce an array of optical power density peaks at the array of pixels due to Talbot effect. A period of the array of peaks is an integer multiple of a pitch of the array of pixels.

A planar light source includes: a support member including a wiring substrate, a light guide member, a light source disposed in a hole of the light guide member, and a first reinforcing member disposed on the support member and surrounding the light guide member in a plan view. The first reinforcing member includes first and second portions extending in a first direction and facing each other, and includes third and fourth portions extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and facing each other. At least one of the first portion, the second portion, the third portion, and the fourth portion has light reflectivity to light emitted from the light source. In the plan view, the light guide member is located between the first and second portions in the second direction, and is located between the third and fourth portions in the first direction.