Single-display color 3D method and apparatus
A method of stereoscopic image formation that includes some or all of the following steps: generating a laser beam, switching the laser beam alternately between a path that includes a stimulated-Raman-scattering optical fiber and a path that does not include a stimulated-Raman-scattering optical fiber, and filtering the output of the stimulated-Raman-scattering optical fiber to reduce the residual non-stimulated-Raman-scattering light.
1. A method of stereoscopic image formation comprising:
generating a first laser beam;
switching the laser beam to alternately form a second laser beam and a third laser beam;
focusing the second laser beam into a first optical fiber;
generating a stimulated Raman scattering light in the first optical fiber; and
forming a first-eye part of a stereoscopic image from the stimulated Raman scattering light.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
forming a second-eye part of the stereoscopic image from the third laser beam.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
focusing the third laser beam into a second optical fiber which does not generate a stimulated Raman scattering light;
forming a second-eye part of the stereoscopic image from an output of the second optical fiber.
4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
filtering an output of the first optical fiber to reduce a part of the output of the first optical fiber which is non-stimulated-Raman-scattering light.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the stereoscopic image is formed by using a digital-image display device.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein the digital-image display device is time synchronized with the switching to form the first-eye part of the stereoscopic image from the stimulated Raman scattering light.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the first laser beam has a wavelength between 510 nm and 560 nm.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein an amount of the stimulated Raman shifted light is adjusted to produce a desired color gamut.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the switching divides the first laser beam into a first time period for the second laser beam and a second time period for the third laser beam, and the first time period and the second time period are chosen to substantially equalize an average brightness of the first-eye part of the stereoscopic image and an average brightness of the second-eye part of the stereoscopic image.
10. A stereoscopic image display apparatus comprising:
a laser generating a first laser beam;
a switching device that switches the first laser beam to form a second laser beam and a third laser beam; and
a first optical fiber which is illuminated by the second laser beam;
wherein the first optical fiber generates a stimulated Raman scattering light, and the stimulated Raman scattering light forms a first-eye part of a stereoscopic image.
11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the third laser beam forms a second-eye part of the stereoscopic image.
12. The apparatus of claim 10 further comprising:
a second optical fiber which is illuminated by the third laser beam;
wherein the second optical fiber does not generate a stimulated Raman scattering light, and an output of the second optical fiber forms a second-eye part of the stereoscopic image.
13. The apparatus of claim 10 further comprising:
an optical filter that reduces a part of an output of the first optical fiber which is not the stimulated Raman scattering light.
14. The apparatus of claim 10 further comprising:
a digital-image display device that forms the stereoscopic image.
15. The apparatus of claim 14 wherein the digital-image display device is time synchronized with the switching device to form the first-eye part of the stereoscopic image from the stimulated Raman scattering light.
16. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the first laser beam has a wavelength between 510 nm and 560 nm.
17. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein an amount of the stimulated Raman shifted light is adjusted to produce a desired color gamut.
18. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the laser comprises a diode-pumped solid state laser.
19. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the switching device divides the first laser beam into a first time period for the second laser beam and a second time period for the third laser beam, and the first time period and the second time period are chosen to substantially equalize an average brightness of the first-eye part of the stereoscopic image and an average brightness of the second-eye part of the stereoscopic image.