Recycling LED Technology from Wavien to reduce picoprojector costs
Valencia, CA--At InfoComm 2011 in Orlando, FL (June 15-17), Wavien demonstrated a low-cost light-emitting diode (LED)-based pocket projector or picoprojector that uses Wavien's proprietary Recycling LED Technology (RLT) in conjunction with a 0.45 inch WXGA digital light processing (DLP) chip from Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX). Wavien says its RLT system dramatically reduces the number of components required in the illumination section of the projector, lowering the cost and increasing reliability of the system, which is available from Wavien for licensing to pocket and picoprojector makers.
"Instead of combining light from separate red, green and blue LED packages, Wavien’s RLT technology combines all 3 colored LED’s into a single package. The component count is reduced from the 17 used in traditional systems to component to 6 in this configuration, and potentially to 3 in the next generation," said Kenneth Li, president and CEO of Wavien, who is also the inventor of Wavien’s Dual Paraboloid Reflector (DPR) technology. Li added, "This unique patented design enables a significant reduction in the cost and increase in consistency in manufacturing, which will be a major determining factor for integrating the pico projector into cell phones at high volumes."
Wavien is a technology licensing company developing long-life, high-performance light sources and engine prototypes for the projection and general lighting industries. Wavien currently offers its DPR technology using ultra-high-pressure arc lamps for education and business uses, and xenon lamps for cinema projectors. Wavien has also entered the LED illumination market with its recycling and non-imaging optical technology.
Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)
Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.