KYOCERA SLD Laser Won The 2023 PRISM Award in The Category of Lasers For Their LaserLight LiFi
KYOCERA SLD AT The SPIE Photonics West Exhibition
Photo credit to KYOCERA SLD LASER
KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc. (KSLD), a world leader in the commercialisation of laser light sources, has been awarded an award at the SPIE Photonics West Exhibition 2023. KSLD demonstrated their DataLightTM high-speed LiFi communication system, a 2023 Prism Award finalist, as well as its new innovations in high-efficiency laser diodes for AR/VR applications and efficient optical power transfer technology.
Yesterday, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, recognized the top-rated new optics and photonics products with the industry-focused Prism Awards.
Every year, the SPIE Prism Awards reflect the rapidly growing trajectory, exciting latest developments, and rich technical innovations across photonics and photonics-enabled industries. This year, the annual ceremony honored a range of established and emerging companies applying innovative and creative solutions to critical problems in areas such as augmented and virtual reality, sensors, lasers, quantum technology, and biomedical optical solutions. For consideration in the 2023 Prism Awards, SPIE received 76 applications from 19 countries.
Finalists and winners were selected by a panel of international judges who leveraged their knowledge and acumen from across the technology commercialization and funding sectors. The distinguished judges’ roster included the FDA’s Zane Arp, iFocus’ Adi Diner, AXA-XL’s Simi George, MKS Instruments’ Marc D. Himel, Coherent’s Qiongying Hu, Chromacity’s Shahida Imani, Teledyne Princeton Instruments’ Jason McClure, Technology Scotland’s Alison McLeod, Tesseract Health’s Nishant Mohan, Engender Technologies’ Cather Simpson, Ceres Technology Advisors’ Linda Smith, TOPTICA’s Mark A. Tolbert, and Nanovation’s Ferechteh Teherani.
“The Prism Awards always showcase an impressive spectrum of innovative solutions based on optics and photonics technology,” said SPIE CEO Kent Rochford. “By providing products powered by photonics, all of these companies — and I am including the finalists as well as tonight’s winners — are offering a terrific array of impactful technologies that will transform lives across the world. I am so excited to be here tonight to congratulate them in person.”
“The range of technology solutions presented at this year’s PRISM awards ceremony leaves no doubt that innovation in optics and photonics continues to chart a profoundly ambitious course,” said Tom Laurin, president and CEO of Photonics Media. “All the finalists and especially this year’s winners demonstrate our industry continues to provide the breakthrough solutions for cutting-edge applications in quantum, integrated photonics, data communications, and health care, among others. We offer our congratulations to the winners in recognition of their achievement.”
Below is the complete list of the award categories, the winners, and their winning products:
AR VR MR: TriLite Technologies, Trixel 3
Biomedical: Philophos, KUOS-O100
Cameras and Imaging: Metalenz, PolarEyesTM
Lasers: Kyocera SLD Laser, LaserLight LiFi System
Quantum Tech: QuiX Quantum, 20-mode Quantum Photonic Processor
Sensors: Ocean Insight, SpeedSorterTM
Software: Dotphoton, Jetraw
Test and Measurement: Precitec Optronik, Flying Spot Scanner (FSS 310)
KYOCERA SLD
KYOCERA SLD Laser is pioneering the future of light. As stated on their website, new ideas are being harnessed to realise tomorrow’s product innovations.
The next generation of lighting has arrived, shining brighter and farther than ever before. In the last decade, LED enabled a new generation of lighting that changed everything. Now, LaserLight outshines the limits of LED to deliver safe, high-luminance white light from an incredibly small point source. LaserLight doesn’t just offer superior technology, it’s enabling entirely new opportunities.
KYOCERA SLD is commercialising revolutionary semi-polar GaN LaserLight for the next generation of display, automotive, and speciality applications. LaserLight sources are used directly in a single color and R-G-B applications or integrated into laser-pumped phosphor architectures.
As an independent spin-off from Soraa Inc, SLD Laser was founded in 2013 by several leading global pioneers in solid-state lighting, including Dr Shuji Nakamura, a 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics for his groundbreaking work with LEDs, Dr Steve Denbaars, Dr James Raring, and Dr Paul Rudy. Our laser technology incorporates a robust intellectual property portfolio of over 500 patents. SLD Laser was acquired by KYOCERA Corporation and has commenced operations as a Kyocera group company under the name KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc.
Article source: https://www.kyocera-sldlaser.com/news/spie-names-winners-of-the-15th-annual-prism-awards
