<title>Pulsed RGB lasers for large-screen video displays</title>

Abstract

Acousto-optic spatial light modulators present new opportunities to create bright video displays with pulsed lasers. Operating characteristics of coherent red, green, and blue light sources to support NTSC, PAL, and HDTV video standards are presented. We describe rear-projection systems under development at COLOR that employ pulsed RGB lasers to produce very bright images suitable for both outdoor and brightly lit indoor large screen display applications.