Green laser diodes to reach $500m in sales by 2016, mostly for pico-projectors

Market research company Yole Développement says that the market for indirect-emitting green laser diodes with reach $500 million by 2016 (more than 45 million devices). This will be driven mostly by pico-projectors. They estimate that in 2010, there will be around 0.5-1 million pico projectors sold, but most of these will be LED based. But in 2011-2012, the direct-emission semiconductor laser should be available for projection display applications. Yole therefore forecasts that 10–20% of projectors will be laser-based by 2011 and 50–75% by 2016.

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