Projection display device

A projection display apparatus, comprising:

• a light source supplying light including an s-wave light and a p-wave light, said light source including a lamp and a parabolic reflector;
• a first polarizing beam splitter including a reflecting surface, transmitting one of the p-wave and s-wave lights and reflecting the other;
• a retardation film arranged between said light source and said first polarizing beam splitter to cover a portion of a front surface of said first polarizing beam splitter, and converting the s-wave light into the p-wave light and the p-wave light into the s-wave light, light emitted from said lamp being reflected by said parabolic reflector accommodating parallel light being directed toward said retardation film, said retardation film including an angle of an optical axis being 45°, said retardation film being any one of a half-wave plate and a quarter wave plate, said retardation film covering a half of said front surface of said first polarizing beam splitter, said retardation film being any one of a triangular cross-section and a rectangular cross section;
• a mirror re-reflecting the light reflected from said reflecting surface of said first polarizing beam splitter toward said reflecting surface of said first polarizing beam splitter, accommodating the light reflected from said reflecting surface being directed toward said retardation film;
• a fly-eyes lens making the light passing through said first beam splitter uniform;
• a condensing lens condensing the light passing through said fly-eyes lens;
• a color separating unit separating red, green and blue lights from the light passing through said condensing lens;
• a reflective liquid crystal display modulating the red, green and blue lights incident on said reflective liquid crystal display from said color separating unit in order to output a p-wave light and an s-wave light;
• a second polarizing beam splitter transmitting one of the p-wave and the s-wave lights and reflecting the other from said reflective liquid crystal display;
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• a projection unit enlarging and projecting the light reflected from said second polarizing beam splitter to form a color image on a screen.