Santa Clara, CA”November 10, 2003″Making a dramatic entry into a fast-growing market, National Semiconductor Corporation introduced laser diode drivers (LDDs) that will allow desktop and notebook ...

Tokyo — A team of University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), researchers led by Shuji Nakamura, a pioneer of laser diode science, has created a low-threshold-current, nonpolar blue-violet laser ...

The ZL40510 and ZL40511 debut as the industry's first laser-diode drivers to support optical disk drives with x16 DVD and x52 CD write/rewrite speeds. According to the company, the drivers will allow ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2004--The market for gallium nitride (GaN) laser diodes will grow at a CAAGR of 195 percent through 2008, according to a new study from Strategy Analytics, the ...

Japanese electronics company Nichia says it has come up with a new type of laser diode that will help speed up creation of next-generation DVD discs. The diode emits a pulsed blue-violet light at ...

Photonic Products is now supplying Sanyo's latest range of high-power blue-violet lasers. The range includes three new 405-nm laser diodes, which offer 20 mW, 45 mW or 85 mW optical output power.

High-power red laser diodes emitting at 660 nm have become something of a commodity for recordable DVD players, but this wavelength isn't ideal for compact projectors that require red, green and blue ...

The EL6900C is the world's first laser driver designed specifically for the new Blu-Ray Disc industry-standard disc-recording format. The complete laser diode driver includes a two-channel sample and ...

Toshiba announced at the CES that they've made a triple-stacked HD-DVD read-only disc that can hold more ones and zeros than a standard Blu-Ray disc --51 gigabytes. That's a lot of 1080p hi-def ...

Innovation is the name of the game as laser diode makers strive to open up new markets for their products. Bookham explains that the trend towards higher powers must be matched by higher brightness ...