On the merits of bicircular polarization for stereo color TV

A 3-D viewing system based on bicircular polarization for channelizing the stereo pair of images to discern the 3-D color image from conventional 2-D color picture tube screens is proposed. Suitable 3-D color TV system compatible to the conventional 2-D color TV standards and equipments is described for generating bicircularly polarized optical images. This viewing system unlike the orthogonally plane polarized ones does not restrict the head movements of the viewer while seeing the picture tube for 3-D perception. The supremacy of bicircular polarization over orthogonal polarization is proved analytically. Copyright © 1982 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.