PMID- 18239710
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080423
LR  - 20190703
IS  - 1559-128X (Print)
IS  - 1559-128X (Linking)
VI  - 47
IP  - 4
DP  - 2008 Feb 1
TI  - Characterizing polarization management in a p-HMPD system.
PG  - 512-22
AB  - It has been a common challenge to operate optical see-through head-mounted 
      displays in well-lit environments due to the low image brightness and contrast 
      compared with the direct view of a real-world scene. This problem is aggravated 
      in the design of a see-through head-mounted projection display (HMPD) in which 
      the projected light is split twice by a beam splitter and further attenuated 
      greatly by a retroreflective screen. A polarizing head-mounted projection display 
      (p-HMPD) design was recently proposed to enhance the overall flux transfer 
      efficiency and thus increase the brightness and contrast of displayed images. 
      Different from the conventional nonpolarizing HMPD designs, the light 
      polarization states in the p-HMPD system are deliberately manipulated to maximize 
      the flux transfer efficiency, which can potentially result in three times higher 
      efficiency than that of a nonpolarizing HMPD. By measuring the Mueller matrices 
      of the major elements in both a p-HMPD and a nonpolarizing HMPD, we characterize 
      the polarization dependence of each element on incident angles and wavelengths, 
      and also investigate the depolarization effect of the retroreflective screen. 
      Based on these experimental results, we further examine the overall luminance 
      efficiencies of the two types of systems and analyze how various aspects of 
      display performances are affected by the angular and chromatic dependence of the 
      polarization components.
FAU - Zhang, Rui
AU  - Zhang R
AD  - 3DVIS Laboratory, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1630 E. 
      University Blvd., Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
FAU - Hua, Hong
AU  - Hua H
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Appl Opt
JT  - Applied optics
JID - 0247660
EDAT- 2008/02/02 09:00
MHDA- 2008/02/02 09:01
CRDT- 2008/02/02 09:00
PHST- 2008/02/02 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/02/02 09:01 [medline]
PHST- 2008/02/02 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 149901 [pii]
AID - 10.1364/ao.47.000512 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Appl Opt. 2008 Feb 1;47(4):512-22. doi: 10.1364/ao.47.000512.