A broadband polarization switch consisting of an active twisted nematic liquid crystal cell and two passive uniaxial compensation films is analysed. The conjugate gradient method was used for optimizing the device parameters. Simulation results indicate that the polarization switch exhibits a broad bandwidth and high contrast ratio. The manufacturing tolerances on cell gap, twist angle and compensation films thickness are reasonably large.

The structure and fabrication of a photo-luminescent screen for an optically written display based on upconversion of near infrared light is presented. Some of the rare earth doped fluoride crystals upconversion photo-luminescent materials are given. A uniform screen with a densely packed layer for high-resolution projection display was语developed using the settling screening method.

The methods of pixel arrangement for autostereoscopic liquid crystal displays based on conventional vertical parallax barriers are summarized. A novel method of pixel arrangement for autostereoscopic liquid crystal displays based on step parallax barriers is proposed. The pixel arrangements are given for different 10 inclined angles of parallax barriers and different column numbers of images. A demo of the autostereoscopic liquid crystal display using the new method of pixel arrangement presents very good stereo images. The results help to solve the process, storage and transmission of stereo images of autostereoscopic liquid crystal displays based on parallax barriers.

The parallax images captured by a toed-in camera have positive and negative horizontal parallax for stereoscopic displays, but they also have parallax distortions including horizontal and vertical distortions. The virtual toed-in camera method can eliminate the horizontal distortion and reduce the vertical distortion. The parallax formulae for the corrected-parallax images were deduced. The experiments were carried out and the results proved that the method was accurate. Good stereoscopic images without horizontal distortion and with little vertical distortion were presented on an autostereoscopic display.

The display based on up-conversion of near infrared light is a novel display. To improve the screen luminance and avoid leakage of infrared light, two multilayer interference filters are designed on the screen of the display. One is called the LP filter, having low transmittance for visible light between 400 and 800 nm, and high transmittance for infrared light between 800 and 1000 nm; the other is called the SP filter with opposite characteristics to those of the LP filter. Layer-symmetric films are used to design the filters and the conjugate gradient method is used to optimize the design. The LP and SP filters obtained have good characteristics within the whole wavelength bandwidth between 400 and 1000 nm and the incident angle range 0-20. The manufacturing tolerances on film thickness and refractive index are reasonably large.