SLD Laser Wins Prism Award for Photonics Innovation

Company Awarded Top Honor in Illumination & Light Source Category by
SPIE & Photonics Media at Photonics West 2018

GOLETA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SLD Laser (formerly SoraaLaser), a world leader in commercialization of
visible laser light sources, was presented a prestigious Prism Award for
Photonics Innovation by SPIE & Photonics Media, on January 31st,
2018. The company’s LaserLight™ Fiber Module won top honors
for the Illumination & Light Source category, during SPIE’s Photonic
West Conference and Trade Show in San Francisco, CA.

Dr. James Raring, SLD Laser co-founder and president, stated, “We are
deeply appreciative that our LaserLight Fiber Module has received this
extraordinary recognition by the 2018 Prism Award judging committee. We
are driven by the vision that laser diodes are lighting's future, we are
honored to receive this prestigious award and to see adoption of our
LaserLight products underway in automotive, display, and specialty
lighting markets.”

SLD’s LaserLight technology delivers more than 10 times higher luminance
than LEDs, and enables safe, highly collimated, white light output,
vastly superior optical control with miniature optics and reflectors,
and high efficiency fiber optic transport and waveguide delivery.
LaserLight delivers novel properties compared with other light sources
by combining the benefits of solid-state illumination such as minimal
power consumption and long lifetime, with the highly directional output
that has been possible only with legacy technology.

The LaserLight Fiber Module product is the world’s first white light,
high luminance, remotely-delivered laser light module. It features
high-efficiency fiber delivery of light from a proprietary and patented,
semi-polar, high power GaN blue laser diode to a remote, high
performance phosphor module. The LaserLight Fiber Module also includes
active sensors for safety monitoring and precise performance control.
The product enables high precision lighting effects such as
ultra-compact, long-range spotlights, ultra-short throw, high angle
illumination, and glare-free pattern generation with sharp light
gradients. It is also an ideal illumination solution for spatially
dynamic lighting systems, for enhanced visibility imaging for emerging
smart car and smart city applications, and for next generation LiFi high
speed data communication.

Recently, SLD’s LaserLight technology has received additional
recognitions, including:

• 2018 Sapphire Award Finalist
• 2017 IES Progress Report Inclusion
• 2017 LightFair Technical Innovation Award
• 2017 LightFair Category Award for SSL Chips & Modules
• 2017 Sapphire Award Finalist, Illumineer of the Year
• 2017 PRISM Award Finalist by SPIE Photonics Media
• 2016 IES Progress Report Inclusion

To learn more about LaserLight technology, visit www.SLDlaser.com.

ABOUT SLD LASER

SLD Laser (formerly SoraaLaser) is commercializing a new generation of
visible laser sources for display, automotive, and specialty
applications. SLD's visible laser light sources are used directly in
single color and R-G-B applications, or integrated into laser pumped
phosphor architectures. These sources enable applications in a myriad of
vertical markets, including: general lighting, automotive headlights,
projection displays, defense pointers & illuminators, biomedical
instrumentation & therapeutics, and industrial material processing &
imaging applications. As an independent spin-off from Soraa Inc. (LED
lighting), SLD Laser was founded by several leading global pioneers in
solid-state lighting, including Dr. Shuji Nakamura, 2014 Nobel Laureate
in Physics, Dr. Steve Denbaars, Dr. James Raring, and Dr. Paul Rudy. SLD
Laser operates fabrication facilities in California's Silicon Valley and
Santa Barbara, CA. To learn more about SLD Laser, visit www.SLDlaser.com
, or contact the company at [email protected]
or 805-696-6999.

Contacts

SLD Laser
David Shiller, Marketing Team
412-897-6432
[email protected]