Concepts of inhomogeneous illumination of area-based light modulators for high-resolution headlamps

Abstract

Adaptive headlamps with innovative lighting functionalities can increase traffic safety. Subtractive light modulators such as Digital-Micromirror-Devices (DMD), liquid crystal displays (LCD) or liquid crystal on silicon devices (LCoS) are considered to be used as an implementation with a high resolution. In order to realize the regulated light distribution as well as to improve the optical efficiency and on-road projection quality of such headlamp systems, an inhomogeneous illumination on the modulator and whereafter low distortion projection optics are considered. In this paper we present simulation results of an optical concept of inhomogeneous illumination for headlamps.