US Patent 7929214 Illumination arrangement for a projection system

An illumination arrangement (1) for a projection system is proposed comprising a light source device (10) and a light collecting, integrating and redirecting device (20). The light source device (10) comprises at least one solid state light source device (30). The light collecting, integrating and redirecting device (20) comprises at least one light integrating device (50), which is adapted to directly receive and to integrate at least a part of primary illumination light (L1) generated by and emitted from at least one associated of at least one solid state light source device (30).