The invention relates to an optical engine for a
projector, belonging to the technical field of
projection display. Three
light beam couplers respectively output three groups of array light by
processing laser light generated by an RGB (three primary colors: red, green and blue)
laser light source; a light-equaling
system comprises three collimation lens arrays; each collimation
lens array consists of gradient reflective index lens units with a quarter of
pitch of optical length; the three groups of array light are respectively output by the three collimation lens arrays to form three groups of parallel light with even
energy distribution; and the parallel light can be merged by a merging and modulating
system, and then can be output to a
projection lens. In the optical engine, the light-equaling
system adopts the collimation lens arrays consisting of the gradient reflective index lens units and can simultaneously realize light equaling, reshaping and collimation; the energy of emergent light spots of the light-equaling system are equally distributed, so as to realize higher
utilization rate of
light energy; simultaneously, the light-equaling system has the characteristic of a simple structure, is beneficial to reducing the volume of the optical engine and realizes
miniaturization of a complete
machine. A light merging system can adopt a
Wollaston prism; based on related principles of
crystal optics and polarization
optics, the light merging structure is innovated, so as to further increase the
utilization rate of
light energy.