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To: w2j2 who wrote (1057)	6/16/1999 9:44:00 AM
From: The Ox	Respond to of 10714

The Race For The Blue Laser Market Is Far From Over Says New Report From Technical Insights' Futuretech ENGLEWOOD, N.J., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Two years after Shuji Nakamura of Nichia Chemical Industries, Japan, demonstrated the first continuous wave (CW) blue laser diode with a significant lifetime, the field is still wide open, says a new Futuretech report, Is the Race for the Blue Laser Over?, from Technical Insights, a unit of Johns Wiley & Sons, Inc. Nichia began commercial sampling of semiconductor blue lasers earlier this year. The device is actually a violet laser that boasts continuous wave (CW) emission for over 10,000 hours sells for $2000 each. The best any other research group has yet done is a Northwestern University group that reports 140 hours CW lifetime. However, Nichia is far from cornering the blue laser market. Cree Research Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., SDL Inc., Xerox Corp., Northwestern University, the University of California-Santa Barbara, Boston University, and North Carolina State University all have active blue laser programs and are receiving money from one very interested third party: The US defense establishment has ponied up millions of dollars in funding from DARPA and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO). The US Navy's Office of Naval Research has been funding the most successful academic research group, Manijeh Razeghi's group at Northwestern, primarily because blue laser light can propagate underwater without refraction, enabling inter-ship communication. Japanese companies such as Fujitsu and Matsushita are also pouring money into blue laser R&D. The result will be a multitude of blue laser devices for applications as diverse as ultra-high resolution laser printers, indoor lighting and next-generation 15 Gbyte DVDs, and an overall blue laser market that will reach billions of dollars within the next five years. Is the Race for the Blue Laser Over? features a detailed overview of competing blue laser technologies and how they work. It includes an assessment of the likely commercial impact of these systems in various industrial sectors. Like all of the Futuretech series, this report details funding, development, and licensing opportunities, and lists key patents. Readers get full contact information, including names, mail and e-mail addresses, phone and fax numbers of key developers. SOURCE John Wiley & Sons, Inc. CO: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ST: New Jersey IN: CHM CPR SU: 06/15/99 14:06 EDT prnewswire.com