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Monday, January 01, 2007

Laser Television

Purer than plasma, with more colors

By Kate Greene

A three-centimeter-wide emitter of red, green, and blue laser light is shown above.
Credit: Courtesy of Novalux

Watch out, plasma TV lovers. Later this year, ­Mitsubishi and ­Samsung could be selling TVs that use lasers to provide more, and more accurate, colors than other display technologies do. That even goes for plasma displays, which use electrically charged gases to cause materials called phosphors to glow.

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