DocumentCode
80499
Title
Whiter brights with lasers
Author
Ulrich, Lawrence
Volume
50
Issue
11
fYear
2013
fDate
Nov-13
Firstpage
36
Lastpage
56
Abstract
I am standing in a twilit underground lab looking at the most powerful car headlight in the world. Its source, a blue-laser diode, is 1000 times as bright as an LED but uses just two-thirds the energy. I had to surrender my passport to see it, for I\´m at BMW\´s highly secure, steel-and-glass research mecca, the FIZ (for Forschungs- und Innovationszentrum, or Research and Innovation Center), an immense complex in Munich replete with workshops, clay modelers¿ "caves," and a vast wind tunnel.
Keywords
LED lamps; road vehicles; semiconductor lasers; BMW; FIZ; Forschungs- und Innovationszentrum; LED; Munich; Research and Innovation Center; blue-laser diode; car headlight; clay modelers; wind tunnel; workshops; Feature extraction; Laser beams; Light emitting diodes; Optical waveguides; Surface emitting lasers; Waveguide lasers;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.2013.6655838
Filename
6655838
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