Santa Clara, CA”November 10, 2003″Making a dramatic entry into a fast-growing market, National Semiconductor Corporation introduced laser diode drivers (LDDs) that will allow desktop and notebook ...

Tokyo — A team of University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), researchers led by Shuji Nakamura, a pioneer of laser diode science, has created a low-threshold-current, nonpolar blue-violet laser ...

Things are looking dicey for both HD DVD and Blu-ray, because a key component has suddenly become scarce: blue laser diode yield rates are only 30% according to Nichia, a company responsible for 80% ...

[Jens] decided he wanted to try building his own laser cutter to see just how much you can actually cut with a fairly low power 300mW laser diode. He was inspired by a similar project from earlier ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2004--The market for gallium nitride (GaN) laser diodes will grow at a CAAGR of 195 percent through 2008, according to a new study from Strategy Analytics, the ...

-- New Laser Diode Driver IC Enables Development of Extremely Small and Cost-efficient Designs Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a global leader in the development and fabrication of advanced ...

in desktop PCs and consumer DVD recorders.

Since manufacturers of blue laser diodes are still unable to improve yield rates, the shortage may result in pushing back the competition between Blu-ray Disc (BD) and HD-DVD optical disc drives in ...

So we know that over 1 million Blu-ray disks have been sold, but how many HD DVDs have been sold? Turns out they're not far behind. According to the official numbers there have been 998,059 HD DVDs ...

Atmel has announced the availability of a laser diode driver IC (ATR0881) for use in combined HD-DVD/Blu-ray, DVD, and CD optical drives, with the company claiming the solution is the industry's ...

Modern electronics have been reaping the benefits of cheap, compact semiconductor lasers for years now. From the revolutions in CD and DVD optical data storage, through seemingly simple devices like ...

DigiTimes is reporting that a serious shortage of blue laser diodes is forcing many manufacturers to cut back on production of next-generation drives, which means the expected pre-Holiday flood of ...