LIGHT GUIDE ELEMENT COMPRISING A DIFFRACTION ELEMENT HAVING A CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL LAYER WITH A PITCH GRADIENT

A light guide element includes: a light guide plate; and a diffraction element that is disposed on a main surface of the light guide plate, in which the diffraction element includes a liquid crystal layer that is formed of a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound and has a li...

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Hauptverfasser: SAITOH, Yukito, MITOBE, Fumitake, SASATA, Katsumi, WATANO, Akiko
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Zusammenfassung:A light guide element includes: a light guide plate; and a diffraction element that is disposed on a main surface of the light guide plate, in which the diffraction element includes a liquid crystal layer that is formed of a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound and has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, a refractive index of the light guide plate is 1.70 or higher, and in a case where the refractive index of the light guide plate is represented by nd and a refractive index of the liquid crystal layer is represented by nk, nk−nd≥0 is satisfied.