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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2016
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Koichi Akiyama, Matsumoto, JP;
Akira Egawa, Shiojiri, JP;
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The invention relates to a light source device including a solid-state light source, a collimator lens which a light beam emitted from the solid-state light source enters, an afocal optical system which includes a light collecting optical system and a collimating optical system and which the light beam having been transmitted through the collimator lens enters, a lens integrator which the light beam having been transmitted through the afocal optical system enters, a polarization splitting element which the light beam having been transmitted through the lens integrator enters, and a wavelength conversion element which a first polarization component split by the polarization splitting element from the light beam enters. At least one of the light collection optical system and the collimating optical system includes a lens formed of quartz.