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| | Cross dichroic prism, method of making the same, and full-color projector using the same - US Patent 6101041 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | It also discloses that, as a result, the optical axis deviation among the individual colors, i.e., image deviation, in a quadrangular dichroic prism whose sides each have a length of 40 mm can be suppressed to 13 µm, which is about 1/3 of the pixel size of normally employed light valves, i.e., 40 µm. |
 | | When the individual prisms 11, 12, 21, 22 constituting the prism 1 have refractive indexes different from each other, refraction occurs at the boundaries between the individual prisms, whereby the output light beams would not be in parallel to each other, with their optical axes forming an angle of θ therebetween. |
 | | of the cross section of the prism 1 is set to 150 mm under the same refractive index condition, the amount of deviation caused by the refractive index difference is only 4 µm, and thus can be suppressed to a deviation amount sufficiently smaller than the pixel pitch. |
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