Microvision, a leading developer of ultra-miniature projection display products, announced today that it has received an $8.5 million purchase order for its new ultra-miniature PicoP(R) laser projection display engine from a consumer electronics customer. The OEM plans to embed the PicoP engine inside a high-end mobile media player for release in late 2010 and plans to announce its launch at that time.
who is that consumer electronics customer?
Tokyo, Japan, March 8, 2010 – Sony Corporation ('Sony') today announced the development of a RGB laser light source module suitable for large screen projectors such as digital cinema projectors. The module incorporates high power lasers of the three primary colors: Red, Green and Blue (RGB) with a combined output power of 21W (equivalent to 5,000 lumens), in a single package measuring just 530cc, among the industry's smallest.
The newly developed RGB laser module uses semiconductor diodes for the red and blue lasers, and a compact, high power solid-state SHG laser for the green. Both the red and green lasers were developed internally by Sony. The three lasers generate output power of 10W for red, 6W for green, and 5W for blue, resulting in a total of 21W. Furthermore, energy conversion ratios for the lasers range from 15 to 22% (18% on average), representing extremely high efficiency for power visible lasers. This high energy conversion ratio also realizes low energy consumption within the module itself.
via asahi.com.
[fl-consult] published an interesting RGB laser diode projector. He uses three lasers
– 532nm green, set to 40mW, analogue (cheap Chinese DPSS without TEC)
– 660nm red, set to 100mW, analogue (Brenner diode from Pioneer DVR-110)
– 405 nm blue, set to 20mW, analog (xbox360 drive)
