Corning Incorporated introduced its new Corning G-2000 green laser at the Display Week 2010 conference, held by the Society for Information Display (SID), on 23-28 May 2010. The G-2000 green laser, sa…
Corning Incorporated introduced its new Corning G-2000 green laser at the Display Week 2010 conference, held by the Society for Information Display (SID), on 23-28 May 2010. The G-2000 green laser, says Corning, demonstrates the industry“s highest commercially available performance in optical power, efficiency, and bandwidth, and is therefore well suited to meet the demands of the growing market for portable micro-projection devices. Advancing from Corning“s first synthetic green laser G-1000 technology, the G-2000 green laser is 30% brighter, 60% more efficient, and offers 20% better bandwidth than its predecessor. “The micro-projection 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, Green Lasers, 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.” Providing outstanding solutions for the tough requirements of the consumer electronics industry, the Corning G-2000 green laser: o generates 80mW of optical power, enabling up to 20 lumens projection; o provides a power-efficient solution with 8% wall-plug efficiency (WPE), and longer battery life; o delivers excellent bandwidth capability with modulation speeds up to 150 MHz, enabling wide extended graphics array (WXGA) resolution; o ensures consistent green power across a 10-60C temperature range, providing thermal stability over wide temperature ranges and extended use periods; and o is designed with a 4mm height and slim footprint that enables embedded micro-projection 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, Opus Microsystems, a leading provider of MEMS-based pico-projector solutions to enable new-generation mobile projection applications that is currently evaluating the G-2000 in multiple pico-projector designs. “The optical power, efficiency, and modulation frequency demonstrated by Corning“s G-2000 green laser make it possible for us to deliver on these demanding requirements.” Commercial production is estimated to begin later in 2010.