Friday 20 December 2013

The Benefits Of An RGB Laser

By Cornelia White


An RGB laser is that beam source that emits red, green and blue lights in form of laser beams either as a separate beam for each color or a combination of all the three colors in one beam. Through the process of additive color mixing which is achieved through combination of these lights, a number of many other lights can be obtained.

RGB lasers are being exploited as an alternative to arc lamps sources (beamers). Although arc lamps have been used for a long period as a source of beams particularly because they are much cheaper, they suffer from setbacks such as limited lifetime, high wall-plug efficiency is impossible, poor image quality as a result of poor spatial coherence and the fact that available color space is not wide enough. For this reasons, the former is becoming more popular RGB sources are much more popular.

Beams from these sources are known to be coherent in both wavelengths, both in time and space allowing for inferences. If the change in phase properties is able to take place at the same time over a long distance and at the same period of time, then such waves will produce a very clear image. It is possible to cancel such waves with a similar with opposite phase.

The red, green and blue colors produced by these sources normally have very narrow optical bandwidth making them similar to monochromatic ones. On mixing, the resulting images are normally very clear as other monochromatic sources of beams. It is not surprising that cathode tube displays, printers and even lamp-based beams are now made of them.

RGB sources however suffer from a major setback given that the power level that is emitted is usually of low level. Most cinema projectors for instance require up to 10 W per color or even more. This level of power sufficiency, maturity or even cost effectiveness is still beyond the existing RGB scanners. When it comes to beam quality, these machines have to operate with high quality beams for them to perform effectively.

This are at times fitted with power-modulators particularly in the instances where the use of optical modulators is not practical due to low-power miniature devices. This is done to achieve better signals and laser diodes are used in most of the occasions. These particular diodes help achieve increased bandwidth to tens or hundreds of megahertz which in turns significantly improves resolutions.

The red, green and blue lasers come in several types depending on the design and construction. One method involves the use of three different types of lasers with each emitting beam of a particular color. These forms of visible beam lasers are however not as suitable as the non visible ones that are near infrared in nature.

The use of infrared solid-state lasers involves application of a single laser that emits a beam of near infrared (invisible) nature. Such a beam then undergoes through several stages of nonlinear frequency conversion the end of which a three colored beam is produced. The other methods that have also been used to obtain these colors are the combination of parametric oscillators, the use of frequency doublers and the use of frequency mixers.

With the technological advancement, better performing RGB laser machines are being produced. With the current attempt to introduce the fourth color in this type of laser, something that will even improve their performers for the better. The expert prediction is that these forms of lasers will be replacing the other forms of beamers.




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