Blue laser

Blue laser

The term blue laser is frequently applied to semiconductor laser diode based on gallium nitride. These new devices have applications in many areas ranging from optoelectronic data storage at high-density to medical applications.

Thanks to prior development of many (mostly Japanese) groups, including- most notably- professor Isamu Akasaki's group, Shuji Nakamura at Nichia Corporation in Anan (Tokushima-ken, Japan) made a series of inventions and developed commercially viable blue and violet semiconductor lasers. The active layer of the Nichia devices was formed from InGaN quantum wells or quantum dots spontaneously formed via self-assembly. Until the mid 1990s, when blue semiconductor lasers were developed, blue lasers were large and expensive gas laser instruments which relied on population inversion in rare gas mixtures and needed high currents and strong cooling. The new invention enabled the development of small, convenient and low priced blue, violet and ultraviolet UV lasers which had not been available before and opened the way for applications such as high-density HD DVD data storage and Blu-ray discs. The shorter wavelength allows it to read discs containing much more information. Blue lasers usually operate at 405 nanometers but in general the operation of these devices was demonstrated between 360 and 480 nm.

DPSS lasers

See also

* Polish blue laser

Further reading

* Shuji Nakamura, Gerhard Fasol, Stephen J. Pearton, "The Blue Laser Diode : The Complete Story", Springer; 2nd edition, October 2, 2000, (ISBN 3-540-66505-6)

External links

* [http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1475 UCSB Press release describing Shuji Nakamura's work]
* [http://www.fineartradiography.com/hobbies/lasers/blu-ray/index.html Reverse engineered blu-ray laser assembly, by Leslie Wright.]
* [http://www.unipress.waw.pl/cms/index.php?lang=en Institute of High Pressure Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Unipress)]
* [http://www.topgan.fr.pl TopGaN]


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