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Sharp announces a new low power Blu-ray laser diode

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Sharp announces a new low power Blu-ray laser diode
Posted by geno 888
Posted on 19/10/06 23:15
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Sharp announces a new low power Blu-ray laser diode
Sharp announced a new Blu-ray laser diode featuring a low power consumption of 168mW and a 20mW output. Samples of the new GH04020A2GE diode will be shipped starting from November 1st. Main use of this new component will be playback of the next generation optical devices such as HD-DVD and Blu-ray.

Partial Google Translation:

As for sharp, industry minimum electric power consumption 168mW * the long-lived design of 1 and industry maximum level 10,000 hour * the royal purple semiconductor laser of the 20mW output which actualizes 2 it develops <GH04020A2GE>, the sample ships from November 1st. The blue ray disk (BD) and it is optimum to the one for playback of the next generation such as HD-DVD DVD.

Attendant upon the spread enlargement of terrestrial digital broadcast, it is becoming something whose hi-vision image is familiar. Regarding the recorder and the personal computer and the game machine etc, it is expected that playback of hi-vision image is anticipated, the real startup of the possible next generation DVD drive on-board type in the future keeps expanding also the demand for the royal purple semiconductor laser of the key device more and more.

The Japanese language source can be viewed here.

This information is available on the original press release published by Sharp, but too bad is available only in Japanese language right now. Who ever is interested can try to read a translation done with Google language tools here.

Source: Sharp



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Blue ray is so yesterday, Royal Purple ray is da future!
maybe sony can get a few of these to make a few ps3's before 2010
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