Photodigm set to revolutionize lasers for pico projectors

Photodigm is a US based company, developing and producing precision lasers since 2000. They are now starting to address the pico-projector laser market. But Photodigm has a different approach then other laser companies.

They say that commercial green lasers today are made using frequency doubling of readily available near infrared lasers. However, the most efficient approach is complex and expensive. The cheapest approach is inefficient, resulting in short battery life. On the horizon are native green lasers, but the materials system for them is devilishly complex, and low yields and high costs threaten to keep these out of consumer products for years.

Convinced that the industry was on the wrong track, Photodigm explored the problem from the ground up. They concluded that the green laser is not the problem. The RGB module is.  Working from their core technology of precision near infrared lasers, Photodigm has developed a technology that promises to deliver a module that is cheap, efficient, scalable, and compact.

Photodigm are currently in talks with several strategic partners from the consumer side, in order to commercialize the technology. They believe that their pico-projector laser modules might be available at around 2011. We'll keep watching ;-)