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Title:
ILLUMINATION DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND PROJECTOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2009162984
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide an illumination device capable of easily forming an irradiation area and uniforming light quantity distribution, and to provide an image display device and a projector using the illumination device.

The illumination device comprises: a laser beam source 12R as a light source part of emitting coherent light; and a diffraction optical element 13R which diffracts the coherent light emitted from the light source part and causes primary diffraction light L1 as diffraction light to travel to a surface S2 to be irradiated, wherein the diffraction optical element 13R is arranged such that coherent light is made incident obliquely relative to a perpendicular line N to an incident surface S1 as the reference surface for arranging the diffraction optical element 13R and causes zero-order light L0 as light besides the diffraction light among light emitted from the diffraction optical element 13R to travel to a position besides the surface S2 to be irradiated.


Inventors:
TAKAGI MASAYUKI
TAKEDA TAKASHI
YAMAUCHI TAISUKE
Application Number:
JP2008000372A
Publication Date:
July 23, 2009
Filing Date:
January 07, 2008
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
SEIKO EPSON CORP
International Classes:
G03B21/14; G02B5/18; G02B19/00; G02F1/13; G02F1/13357; G03B21/00
Domestic Patent References:
JP2004525390A2004-08-19
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Masahiko Ueyanagi
Osamu Suzawa
Kazuhiko Miyasaka