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To: John Finley who wrote (181)	1/10/2001 4:59:54 PM
From: kinkblot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 290

Re: GaN lasers I believe not, at least not in their own laser products. They all appear to use either 648 nm (red) or 633 nm (orange-red) wavelengths and have been around for quite a while, so I don't believe those are GaN devices. They used to list the laser-diodes as well as the pointers and alignment products on the LaserLyte website laserlyte.com, but I don't see them there anymore. The laser-diodes and LEDs are manufactured at Alpha Photonics, which had been acquired by Lyte in September 1998, about nine months prior to the acquisition of Lyte by AXT. I have one of the SleekPoint pointers. I like the design, so I grabbed one about a year ago in Brookstone after a clerk told me the store was phasing it out in favor of the penlight style. Maybe now I can pick up a flashlight cheap. <g> The MiniBrite LED flashlights are available while supplies last with green, red, yellow, blue or white beams, so they're doing the blue and white somehow. AXT's new cyan and green LEDs are specified as AlInGaN. In their company profile, AXT includes the statement "The company has also introduced gallium nitride substrates for manufacturing blue LEDs," but beyond that they've been tight-lipped about it. WT