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Opportunities for LEDs and Lasers in Displays

Date: September 25, 3006
Time: 1:00 noon EST, 10:00 AM PST, 17:00 PM GMT
Length: 1 hour, including Q&A
Hosted by : Laser Focus World and Insight Media

LEDs AND LASERS have been proposed as light sources for displays for many years. The low performance of LEDs and the high cost of lasers prevented any mass-market for systems based on these technologies, but LED performance and laser costs are improving rapidly. In this Webcast Matthew Brennesholtz, Sr. Analyst for Insight Media (www.insightmedia.info) and co-author of the text "Projection Displays," will discuss the technology of red, green and blue solid-state light sources suitable for direct view LCD and projection applications. The design of HDTV displays using these solid-state light sources will also be covered. Finally, forecasts for LED and laser display sales through 2010 will be discussed.

Presenter: Matthew Brennesholtz, Sr. Analyst, Insight Media
Matthew Brennesholtz has worked in the display field since receiving his Masters of Engineering degree from Cornell University in 1978. He has worked on direct view CRT systems and projection systems based on CRTs, oil-film light valves, DMDs, LCDs and LCoS. In addition to system level work, he was involved in the design and testing of optical components for these systems. Currently he is with Insight Media (http://www.insightmedia.info/) providing consulting and other services to the display industry.

Mr. Brennesholtz is co-author of the book “Projection Displays,” author or co-author of 16 SID and SPIE papers and holds 23 US patents. He has also presented numerous tutorials on display related topics to the SID, SPIE and at other venues. At Insight Media, he has co-authored reports on LEDs and Lasers in projection systems, direct view LCD backlight systems, low-cost projectors and Stereoscopic 3D systems.

Webcast Sponsors:

About Bookham:
Bookham, Inc. is a leading developer, manufacturer, and provider of optical solutions. The company designs, manufactures and markets optical components, modules and subsystems used in a broad range of markets, including telecommunications, data communications, aerospace, industrial, consumer optics, semiconductor, printing, sensing, scientific and defense.

With over 20 years' experience of developing and manufacturing large volumes of laser diodes, the Bookham Swiss-based division is leading the market regarding power, brightness and reliability. The offering ranges from high brightness single emitters and modules to high power bars and stacks for pumping Fiber Lasers, Disc Lasers, Nd:YAG Lasers and Frequency Doubling, as well as Direct Diode Systems. These products are utilized for the most demanding applications in industrial, medical, printing, defense and aerospace. http://www.bookham.com

About Frankfurt Lasers:
Founded in 1994, Frankfurt Laser Company (FLC) is a private company engaged in development, production and distribution of a wide range of laser diodes and incorporating them products - laser diode modules, diode-pumped SS frequency-doubled lasers and OEM modules. As complementary products FLC supplies SMT laser diode drivers and collimator optic, laser diode headers and caps, a range of MIR and rare-earth-doped optical fibers. http://www.frlaserco.com

About Principia Lightworks:
Principia LightWorks, Inc. (Woodland Hills, CA) has developed a laser technology, the "eVCSEL", an electron-beam-pumped vertical cavity surface-emitting laser, which serves as a light source for projection display applications. Principia's eVCSEL, a laser faceplate attached to a Cathode Ray Tube ("CRT"), can be mass produced to meet the projection display market's demand for the superior color reproduction that lasers offer with the reliability and low cost that conventional light sources provide. Principia's technology and low cost manufacturing allows display product OEMs to broadly integrate lasers as a light source for consumer projectors, including rear screen projection television ("RPTV"). Principia has designed and fabricated eVCSELs in red, green, and blue that operate at high output power (greater than 5 watts), with efficiencies and device lifetime that fall within the performance parameters of consumer market applications. http://www.principia-lightworks.com

CONTACT: Insight Media, Dian Mecca, (203) 831-8464, dian@insightmedia.info.