[freebeard]

You lost me somewhere between 'do the opposite' and 'better yet'.

My thinking is that LCDs are either fluorescent or LED driven. One or both is/are edge lit, where the light is fed into a translucent sheet that emits uniformly. So the question becomes piping light from a collector to the rectangular edge. Fiber optic transition from bundle to sheet? Maybe light from one or two edges?

Filter the infrared for sure.