Color display device using separate diffracted light and illumination light

A display device, comprising:

• a condenser unit for converging polarized light output from a plurality of light sources, and outputting the converged polarized light;
• an illumination lens system for converting the polarized light, which is output from the condenser unit, into linear parallel light;
• a plurality of diffractive light modulators for producing diffracted light beams having a plurality of diffraction orders by optically modulating the polarized light for each wavelength;
• a mirror for separating illumination light and diffracted light, the mirror passing the polarized light, which is output from the illumination lens system, therethrough using slits, and the mirror reflecting the diffracted light beams, which are output from the diffractive light modulators, toward a filter system;
• a polarized beam separator for separating the polarized light, which is output from the mirror for separating illumination light from diffracted light, on a wavelength basis and then allowing the separated beams to be incident on the diffractive light modulators, and converging the diffracted light beams output from the plurality of the diffractive light modulators and then outputting the converged light to the mirror for separating illumination light from diffracted light;
• the filter system for selecting the diffracted light beams having desired diffraction orders from among the diffracted light beams, which are output from the diffractive light modulators, using a dichroic filter;
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• a projection system for focusing the diffracted light beams selected by the filter system, and projecting the focused light beams onto a screen.