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SLD Laser has unveiled its newest offering, SkyBeam, the world’s first 12,000 lumen LaserLight spotlight for outdoor lighting applications. The offering is based on SLD’s award winning UL safety certified LaserLight-SMD product released last year. The company will be showcasing the SkyBeam along with LaserLight-Fiber and SMD products at LightFair International 2019 event in Philadelphia from May 21-23.

According to Dr. Paul Rudy, CMO of SLD Laser, last year, LaserLight product shipments began by delivering 10 times higher visibility than can be achieved with LEDs into applications such as portable handheld flashlights, drones, off-road light bars, and automotive headlights. With the increased output demonstrated in SkyBeam of 12,000 lumens, 6 million candela, and 5 kilometer range, deployment is now starting in higher lumen applications such as entertainment and architecture, avionics and search & rescue, ports and marine lighting, as well as pole lights and stadiums.

SLD will also demonstrate FiberLight modules at LightFair for specialty pendant lights, accent lighting, pole lighting, and professional industrial and medical applications such as endoscopy and machine vision, where light needs to be transported or the fiber itself emits as the light source. LaserLight sources couple more than 10 times more efficiently than LEDs into low cost thin fiber optics, thereby enabling plug-and-play fiber optic lighting systems, with the installation of the modular light source as simple as connecting a headphone jack. Moreover, SLD Laser products have achieved the world’s first UL and IEC Safety Certifications for laser lighting.

Dr. James Raring, President and COO of SLD Laser, believes, LaserLight is poised to revolutionize the lighting industry as did the arrival of LED lighting more than a decade ago. Delivering more than 10 times the brightness of LEDs allows LaserLight to dramatically extend the range of illumination and precisely shape the light from an ultra-compact, long lifetime source with minimal power consumption. Beyond lighting, it provides the capability for high speed data transmission and 3D sensing.

In addition to lighting, LaserLight products are now also shipping for automotive applications such as the high beam booster for headlights. Future auto applications include high beam / low beam headlights, daytime running lights, and interior ambient fiber lighting. Additionally, LaserLight technology will enable new lighting functions in next generation autonomous driving with active beam shaping to dynamically display the light on the road. For connected cars, LaserLight sources can enable LiFi data communications – high speed, networked, wireless communications using light – which eclipse the capabilities of conventional WiFi communications by 1000 times, with vastly increased data transmission rates in excess of 10GB per second and extended range.

SLD Laser will be hosting meetings at LightFair International in Philadelphia, PA from May 21–23 in booth #134.