[PRJ2] Optical Components

[PRJ2-1(Invited)] Watt-class Operation of GaN-based Blue and Green Laser Diodes

*Hideki Watanabe¹, Yusuke Nakayama¹, Yukio Hoshina¹, Masahiro Murayama¹, Yuichiro Kikuchi², Yukihisa Kogure², Yasuhiro Kadowaki², Koichi Mizutani³, Takahiro Koyama¹, Noriyuki Fuutagawa¹, Hidekazu Kawanishi¹, Toshiya Uemura³, Katsunori Yanashima¹ (1. Sony Corporation (Japan), 2. Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (Japan), 3. Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. (Japan))

Keywords: Visible laser diodes, High power, GaN, Projector

Visible laser diodes have recently attracted a great deal of attention as light sources for various display and lighting applications. In this paper, recent progress in green and blue lasers developed at Sony, which realize watt-class output power, are reported.