Laser TV

More and more firms are making use of laser light engines, which are solid state lasers used as the light source for electronic devices. Laser engines are ideal for consumer electronics because of its compact nature, low power consumption, and the ability to produce the brightest and widest color gamut of any light source on the market. With the inevitable mass production of laser engines for use in cell phone screens, microdisplays, and TVs, this will significantly drive laser component costs down in the near term.

QPC Lasers Ships High Power Miniaturized Ultra Laser To US Government Prime Contractor April 14, 2008

“We are pleased to meet this important defense customer’s need for a compact high performance laser engine by deploying our BrightLock chip technology into our high brightness Ultra fiber coupled product platform,” stated Paul Rudy, Ph.D., Vice President of Marketing and Sales for QPC. “High peak power operation is a critical requirement for several defense applications including rangefinding, targeting, and remote sensing. Our BrightLock Ultra products meet this need uniquely with rugged and compact solutions that can endure demanding environmental conditions.”

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Elusive Green Laser is the Missing Ingredient for Amazing Displays
February 14, 2008

The projection-laser displays envisioned by researchers would create wall-size images with a broader color range than displays now on the market. Fernando Ponce, an Arizona State University physicist, said a trio of red, green and blue lasers could even be used to make a futuristic, 3-D, holographic video projector.

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Laser Chip Suits Optics Applications
January 24, 2008

Intense has released the Power Core 808 very high brightness, single emitter laser engine chip, which is easily customised to a wide variety of optics applications. The Power Core is the most flexible laser platform in the industry. The compact design combines a small emitting aperture (100um) with low beam divergence to produce very high brightness in a small, simple-to-integrate, chip-level device.

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Arasor buys Novalux for $7M
January 15, 2008

Arasor International Ltd. said it acquired Novalux, Inc., which focuses on laser technology, for $7 million in Arasor stock and the assumption of $13 million in debt.

Sydney, Australia-based Arasor said the acquisition will let it provide an end-to-end solution in the manufacture of light sources in the laser display industry.

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Novalux Shows Concept Home Theater Laser Projector During CES 2008
January 11, 2008

Novalux, Inc., developer of Necsel™ laser technology, will demonstrate a proof-of-concept JVC home theater laser projector during the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), January 7-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The demo will illustrate the enhanced image quality Necsel lasers provide when combined with JVC’s proprietary D-ILA® (Digital Direct Drive Image Light Amplifier) high-definition (HD) projection technology.

“We’ve taken JVC’s latest home theater projector, removed the lamp from inside and replaced it with Necsel lasers,” said Greg Niven, Novalux executive vice president of marketing. “What viewers will see is how our lasers are an ideal complement to JVC’s advanced LCOS technology. In the past we’ve shown significant advances in laser TV technology; with this concept demonstration we’ll premiere what we believe will be the next big thing in home theater.”

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Light Blue Optics opens U.S. Operations
January 4, 2008

Light Blue Optics (LBO), the industry-leading developer of holographic laser projection technology, today announced the opening of its U.S. Operations with an Engineering and Business Development facility in Colorado Springs, CO. The news follows LBO’s closure of a $26 million Series A funding round in October 2007 and will further accelerate the Company’s product development and commercialization program to bring its miniature projection systems to high-volume markets.

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Arasor, ZTE to Make Displays
November 16, 2007

Arasor International Ltd. of Mountain View, Calif., an Australian-based maker of an optoelectronic chip that drives laser-based display applications (so-called “laser TV”), has entered into a $300 million joint venture with ZTE Corp. (Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Co. Ltd.) of China to develop and manufacture laser displays in televisions, projectors and mobile devices including cellular phones, PDAs and notebooks. Arasor will own 51 percent of the joint venture.

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