US 12,455,409 B2
Optical film and polarizing beam splitter
Zhisheng Yun, Sammamish, WA (US); Timothy J. Nevitt, Red Wing, MN (US); John D. Le, Woodbury, MN (US); and Susan L. Kent, Shorewood, MN (US)
Assigned to 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed by 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY, St. Paul, MN (US)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/342,125.
Application 18/342,125 is a division of application No. 16/753,444, granted, now 11,726,246, previously published as PCT/IB2018/058100, filed on Oct. 18, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/574,879, filed on Oct. 20, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0333298 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. G02B 5/30 (2006.01); G02B 27/28 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 5/305 (2013.01) [G02B 5/3083 (2013.01); G02B 27/283 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical film comprising a plurality of polymeric layers, the plurality of polymeric layers having an average optical transmittance of at least 80% of normally incident light having a first polarization state in a predetermined wavelength range extending at least from 450 to 600 nm and an average optical reflectance of at least 95% of normally incident light having an orthogonal second polarization state in the predetermined wavelength range, each polymeric layer of the plurality of polymeric layers having an average thickness less than about 200 nm, the plurality of polymeric layers comprising first and second polymeric layers as the two polymeric layers in the plurality of polymeric layers farthest apart from each other, the first and second polymeric layers having respective first and second thicknesses, a difference between the first and second thicknesses being less than about 10 nm.