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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2018
Egarim Corporation Japan, Shizuoka, JP;
Egarim Corporation Japan, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
A polarization beam splitter is disclosed having reduced size and weight relative to the prior art. The disclosed polarization beam splitter has a translucent substrate and a hologram layer provided on a front surface of the substrate. The polarization beam splitter is capable of separating S-polarized light from light incident on the hologram layer via the substrate, wherein the substrate has a back surface facing the front surface on which the hologram layer is provided, and a side surface connecting the front surface and the back surface. The hologram layer has a hologram for diffracting circularly polarized light incident on the hologram layer from outside the substrate via either the back surface or a portion of the side surface to generate S-polarized light having an extinction ratio of 50:1 or greater toward the other of the back surface or the portion of the side surface.