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A thin metal film is introduced to split two-way polarized image beams, thereby accomplishing a stereoscopic three-dimensional display. Linearly polarized beams emitted by two uniform liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are reflected and transmitted by ultrathin aluminum film separately. Since optical constant of ultrathin metal film depends on film thickness, a piecewise linear function is used to obtain the relationship between the volume fraction of aluminum and the thickness of the film, and then the optical constant can be estimated by the Sheng Model. Following this procedure it is proved that both the reflected and the transmitted beams become elliptically polarized light beams and their principal axes are approximately vertical. Thus two orthogonal polarizers can be used to separate them and then make the observer have a perception of depth in LCD image. In order to keep the quantities of light entering the observers two eyes balanced, the thickness of the aluminum film is optimized. Experimental results are in agreement with the theoretical analyses, so the correctness of the method is verified.
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Keywords:
- stereoscopic visualization /
- liquid crystal display /
- optical constant /
- ultrathin metal film
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[1] Jang J S, Javidi B 2004 Opt. Express 12 1077
[2] [3] Tao Y H, Wang Q H, Gu J, Zhao W X, Li D H 2009 Opt. Lett. 34 3220
[4] Kim S C, Kim E S 2005 Opt. Commun. 249 51
[5] [6] Kim S C, Kim E S 2006 Opt. Commun. 266 55
[7] [8] Shin H K, Lee J H, Jin H J, Yoon T H, Kim J C 2010 Opt. Lett. 35 2227
[9] [10] [11] Born M, Wolf E 2009 Principles of Optics (Beijing: Publishing House of Electronics Industry) pp628633 (in Chinese) [玻恩 M、沃尔夫E 2009 光学原理(中译本) (北京: 电子工业出版社) 第628633页]
[12] [13] Aleksandar D R 1995 Appl. Opt. 34 4755
[14] [15] Sun Z Q, Cao C B, Cao L, Liang P, Huang X F,Song X P 2010 Vacuum 84 828
[16] Zhou Y, Wu G S, Dai W, Li H B, Wang A Y 2010 Acta Phys. Sin. 59 2356 (in Chinese)[周 毅、吴国松、代 伟、李洪波、汪爱英 2010 59 2356]
[17] [18] Maxwell-Garnett J C 1904 Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London A 203 385
[19] [20] Bruggeman D A G 1935 Ann. Phys. 24 636
[21] [22] [23] Sheng P 1980 Phys. Rev. Lett. 45 60
[24] Du H, Chen H, Gong J, Wang T G, Sun C, Lee S W, Wen L S 2004 Appl. Surf. Sci. 233 99
[25] [26] Du H, Xiao J Q, Zou Y S, Wang T G, Gong J, Sun C, Wen L S 2006 Opt. Mater. 28 944
[27] [28] Palik E D 1985 Handbook of Optical Constants of Solids (San Diego: Academic Press) pp369406
[29] [30] Marvin J W 2003 Handbook of Optical Materials (Boca Raton: CRC Press) pp314316
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