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Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2013
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Kazuya Matsumoto, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 21/20 (2006.01); G02B 27/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 21/204 (2013.01); G02B 27/283 (2013.01); G02B 27/285 (2013.01); G03B 21/2073 (2013.01);
Abstract

A light source apparatus includes a polarization conversion element, a fluorescent substance and a light source element. The polarization conversion element has a p/s-polarizing beam splitter film to separate polarization components of incident light into p-polarization component and s-polarization component. The fluorescent substance emits visible light as the incident light that is incident on the p/s-polarizing beam splitter film, which visible light is generated by that the fluorescent substance is excited by excitation light, and has a wavelength of longer wavelength region than a wavelength of the excitation light. The light source element emits a laser beam having a predetermined wavelength as the excitation light to irradiate the fluorescent substance with the excitation light so that a laser beam having a polarization plane between the polarization plane of p-polarized light and the polarization plane of s-polarized light exiting from the fluorescent substance is emitted as the incident light.


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