Patent ID: 6857761

Claim:
An illumination system with multiple lamps, comprising: a beam splitter having four sides with a beam reflecting surface located on one of said four sides and a light output surface located on a second of said four sides thereof; and two light guiding means respectively disposed on a third and a fourth of said four sides of the beam splitter, and in optical communication therewith, each light guiding means comprising: a lamp; and a light tunnel having an end reflecting surface closed to one side of the lamp and the other end of the light tunnel being closed to the beam splitter, the end reflecting surface having an incident aperture; wherein light emitted from each lamp is converged to the end reflecting surface of the corresponding light tunnel and enters into the corresponding light tunnel through the incident aperture, and then the lights is outputted to the beam splitter located on the other side of the corresponding light tunnel and finally is outputted through the light output surface of the beam splitter.