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Optical configuration of a three-dimensional active retarder panel for producing symmetric left- and right-circularly-polarized light

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An optimal optical configuration for producing symmetric left- and right-circularly-polarized light for a three-dimensional (3D) circularly-polarized active retarder (CP-AR) display is proposed. It consists of a λ/2 retardation switching liquid crystal (LC) cell and two positive A-plate films. When the vertical electric field that is applied to the λ/2 retardation-switching LC cell is alternately turned on and off, the overall AR panel produces left- and right-circularly-polarized light for the left and the right eyes, respectively. We designed an optical configuration and applied it to an electrically-controlled birefringence (ECB) cell. From the results of calculation and experiments, we obtained a CP-AR display with highly reduced 3D crosstalk on the left- and the right-hand sides.

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  1. Department of Advanced Materials Engineering for Information and Electronics, and Regional Innovation Center — Components and Materials for Information Display, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, 446-701, Korea

    Taehyung Kim, Sunhwan Kim, Min-Jun Gim & Suk-Won Choi

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Kim, T., Kim, S., Gim, MJ. et al. Optical configuration of a three-dimensional active retarder panel for producing symmetric left- and right-circularly-polarized light. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 62, 713–717 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.62.713

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