Violet Diode Lasers See Broadened Application Base
The recent availability of GaN-based laser diodes, nurtured by a strong and flourishing LED market, has opened up a host of new applications. The optical storage market, essentially the raison d’être for this technology, is leading the way with a new generation of writers/players that build upon established optical storage technology. The two contenders for a new storage format, the recently standardized Blu-ray Disc,1 proposed by the 10-strong, similarly named consortium, and AOD,2 proposed by...
Photonics Spectra, January 2004