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Optical structure for a three-dimensional liquid-crystal cell using a wide-band and wide-view half-wave retarder

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In order to improve the image crosstalk for a film patterned retarder (FPR) of a linear polarizer type in a stereoscopic three dimensional (3D) display, we propose an optical structure with wideband and wide viewing angle characteristics and using only two half-wave retarders. This proposed half-wave retarder of the FPR 3D cell consists of a λ/2 biaxial film and a patterned λ/2 A-film. We calculated the phase retardation and confirmed the polarization states of the light passing through each film on the Poincaré over all visible wavelengths by using the Stokes vector and the Muller matrix method. Then, we optimized the optical parameters of the two retardation films in the oblique direction by using the parameter space method as a function of the optical axis and the N Z parameter of the biaxial λ/2 film. Consequently, we verified that the left 3D crosstalk of the proposed FPR 3D cell could be improved by about 91.87% in the horizontal viewing direction and 97.22% in the vertical viewing direction. The right 3D crosstalk could almost maintain the crosstalk value of the conventional structure.

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Mun, BJ., Lee, GD. Optical structure for a three-dimensional liquid-crystal cell using a wide-band and wide-view half-wave retarder. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 62, 40–47 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.62.40

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