Corning green laser takes on LED projector
Corning will exhibit its new G-2000 green laser at the Display Week 2010 conference, held by the Society for Information Display (SID) at booth #641, in Seattle from May 23-28.
Corning marketed the first synthetic green laser, the G-1000, in 2008. The latest offering, the G-2000 is claimed to be 30% brighter, 60% more efficient, and offer 20% better bandwidth than its predecessor. It is suitable for use in portable and embedded microprojection devices.
"The microprojection market presents a very large opportunity for our customers. That's why the development of a winning light-source solution - one that is bright, small, and easy on a battery - is so important," said Thomas Mills, General Manager of the Green Lasers division in Corning New Business Development.
"The G-2000 is brighter, faster, and more efficient than any other green laser commercially available today. With these benefits, it can provide our customers a much needed competitive edge over alternative solutions, like LED-based projectors."
These days, microprojection in the consumer electronics industry (such as those used in handsets and PDAs) require a brightness of greater than 10 lumens, wide-video graphics array (WVGA) resolution or better, and at least two hours of battery life.
The Corning G-2000 green laser is claimed to
-- generate 80mW of optical power, enabling up to twenty lumens projection;
-- provide 8% wall-plug efficiency (WPE), and longer battery life;
-- deliver excellent bandwidth capability with modulation speeds up to 150 MHz, enabling wide extended graphics array (WXGA) resolution;
-- ensure consistent green power across a 10-60C temperature range over extended usage periods;
-- be 4 mm in height and have a slim footprint that enables embedded microprojection in today's ultra-slim mobile devices.
"With the market shifting to greater than 10 lumens brightness and resolution of WXGA, we need to develop solutions that place us ahead of the competition," said Andrew Hung President of Opus Microsystems, a leading provider of MEMS-based picoprojectors.
Opus is one of the companies currently evaluating the G-2000 for mobile projection applications.
Samples are now available for testing and commercial production is estimated to begin later in 2010.
