Novel Advances in Microsystems Technologies and Their Applications

9	Increasing Projector Contrast and Brightness through Light Redirection Reynald Hoskinson and Boris Stoeber

CONTENTS

9.1      Introduction

9.2      Conventional Projection Display Systems

9.3      Other Adaptive Display Mechanisms for Projectors

9.4      Concept for an Improved Projection Display

9.5      AMA Projector Optical Design

9.6      Mirror Allocation

9.7      Design Considerations for Electrostatically Actuated Micromirrors

9.7.1      Analogue Micromirror Array Design

9.8      Optical System

9.9      Conclusion

References

9.1    INTRODUCTION

A projection display creates an image on an auxiliary surface, separate from the projector itself. For this reason, the images can be made very large, able to be viewed by groups of people, ...