And you thought it was all about consumer electronics. No joke. Today, Professor Hiroyuki Yokoyama of the New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe), Tohoku University and Advanced Materials Laboratories, and Sony announced the development of a blue-violet ultrafast pulsed semiconductor laser with drastically improved peak laser beam output levels 100 times that of the world’s current highest levels.
The hope is that this new semiconductor laser system can have a wider range of future applications such as leveraging this technology to enable the size of components like a light source box to be much smaller. And based on the newly developed ultra-high output, ultrafast pulsed semiconductor laser light source, hopes are that it will help pave the way for next generation large capacity optical disc storage technologies.
These research findings were also published in the latest edition of the U.S. academic journal, ‘Applied Physics Letters’. (Appl. Phys. Lett. volume 97, issue 2, page 021101 (2010); doi:10.1063/1.3462942 (3 pages), Online Publication Date: 12 July 2010 )
It’s exciting to see new technologies and research like this through the collaboration of many minds across organizations. If you’re an open science fan like I am, this is pretty cool stuff.
The full press release is here where you can read more details.
via Sony.net