Giant Microoptics: Wide Applications in Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) Systems

Microoptic devices1,2) as shown in fig.1 are becoming standard optical components by recent development in optical imaging systems and fiber communication systems because of 2-D configuration facility and mass productivity using replicating technique3). In particular, LCD systems have been grown up very fast in these few years and will be a promising industrial field of microoptic devices. For this purpose, area size must be increased from a few mm to a few 10 cm, while μm feature size is still remained, and this is called giant microoptics.