Detectors & Imaging

Corning unveils second-generation green laser for picoprojection displays at SID Display Week 2010

May 25, 2010

Seattle, WA--At SID's Display Week 2010, Corning unveiled its G-2000 green laser that is 30% brighter, 60% more efficient, and has 20% better bandwidth than its G-1000 predecessor.

Seattle, WA--At the Society for Information Display (SID) 2010 International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition (Display Week 2010) May 23-28 in Seattle, WA, Corning Incorporated (Corning, NY) unveiled its G-2000 green laser, the next iteration of its G-1000 laser, that Corning says offers the industry's highest commercially available performance in optical power, efficiency, and bandwidth--well suited to meet the demands of the growing market for portable microprojection or picoprojection devices (see also "Corning and Microvision partner on green lasers for microprojectors". In 2009, a host of green lasers entered the marketplace.

Advancing from the G-1000 technology, the G-2000 green laser is 30% brighter, 60% more efficient, and offers 20% better bandwidth than its predecessor.

The Corning G-2000 green laser generates 80mW of optical power, enabling up to twenty lumens projection; provides a power-efficient solution with 8% wall-plug efficiency (WPE) and long battery life; delivers excellent bandwidth capability with modulation speeds up to 150 MHz, enabling wide extended graphics array (WXGA) resolution; ensures consistent green power across a 10-60ºC temperature range, providing thermal stability over wide temperature ranges and extended use periods; and is designed with a 4 mm height and 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, Opus Microsystems, a leading provider of MEMS-based picoprojector solutions to enable new-generation mobile projection applications that is currently evaluating the G-2000 in multiple picoprojector 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.”

The Corning G-2000 green laser is currently being sampled by customers. Commercial production is estimated to begin later in 2010.

--Posted by Gail Overton; [email protected]; www.laserfocusworld.com