Projector with light source including laser, phosphor, and led

Abstract

A projector includes a laser for forming blue or UV light and a rotatable color wheel having at least one sector coated with a phosphor for converting such blue or UV light into green light. The projector further includes a source of red light and a source of blue light which, in certain embodiments, is the color wheel. At least one imaging device is positioned to receive, directly or indirectly, the green, red and blue light for forming a green, red, and blue portions of an image to be projected. The projector further has projection optics for receiving the green, red, and blue portions for projecting the image. The projection optics may receive sequential green, red, and blue portions of the image to be projected or the green, red, and blue portions can be formed by separate light sources and combined into the final image and projected.

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