Related companies

Wavien, based in California US is a technology licensing company developing long-life, high-performance light sources and engine prototypes for the projection and general lighting industries.

Wavien offers the Recycling LED Technology (RLT) technology for pico projectors (based on TI's DLP chip) for licensing to pico projector makers.

Wavien's web site

EpiCrystals (based in Finland) are developing laser products for pico projectors based on their DeCIBEL technology. According to the company, DeCIBEL lasers will offer the best image quality and lowest speckle.

EpiCrystals' first product, a green laser diode is expected to hit the market in early 2012.

EpiCrystal's web site

Pacific Media Associates (PMA) is a high-tech market research and publishing firm that specializes in providing information on large-screen display products, markets, and manufacturers. PMA is covering the pico-projector market.

You can read the latest pico-projector news from PMA here.

PMA's web site

Photodigm is a US based company, developing and producing precision lasers since 2000. They are working on a new way to make pico-projector lasers that will be cheap and efficient.

Photodigm's web site

Greenlight Optics provides engineering services and products to help companies develop or integrate the latest picoprojector technology. They offer custom and off-the-shelf engines, concept evaluation, optical and system design, prototyping, production design, and manufacturing.

Greenlight optics web page

Mirrorcle provides several optical MEMS products and services. One of their products is a MEMS Mirror-based projection displays, to be used in pico projectors.

Mirrorcle's web sites

Luminus Devices develops and manufactures high performance, solid state lighting solutions for a variety of illumination applications. Their LED prodcuts are called 'PhlatLIght'. 

PhlatLight LEDs can be used to light pico projectors. We know of two such devices: Samsung's  Show mobile phone and the BenQ GP1. In February 2010 Luminus raised $19 million from Venture funds.

Luminus' web site