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A beam-addressed storage light valve (LV) can form the basis for a very high information-content display. In many cases the upper limit will be determined by the resolution limit of the optical system used to project the LV onto a screen, and this may be as high as 108 picture elements (pels). In contrast, a refreshed display such as a CRT has a lower limit to the refresh rate in order to avoid flicker so that high information content requires a very high data rate. Practical extension of refreshed CRT displays beyond a few million pels only seems feasible if multiple beams are used. Even then, as with storage CRT’s, an upper limit on the amount of information which can be resolved by the user is going to be determined by the physical size limitations of the tube.
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Dewey, A.G. (1980). Projection Storage Displays Using Laser-Addressed Smectic Liquid Crystals. In: Sprokel, G.J. (eds) The Physics and Chemistry of Liquid Crystal Devices. The IBM Research Symposia Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2183-3_16
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