The Working Of An RGB Laser

By Cornelia White


An RGB laser is that laser that emits three primary colors of light. These are red light, green light and blue light, hence the acronym RGB. These can be produced in a single beam for all the three colors or separate beams for each of the color. Through the process of optical amplification of stimulated emissions of electromagnetic radiations, it is possible to obtain many more colors from these primary colors.

Arc lamp sources are now being replaced with RGB lasers for light emissions, particularly given that they are much better when it comes to performance as compared to the arc lamp beamers. Arc lamp beamers are known to be the cheaper alternatives but they have limited lifetime, poor image quality and impossibility to achieve high wall-plug efficiency.

The success of these lasers has to do with the coherency of wavelengths. They are both coherent in time and space to each other hence the possibility of inferences. The change of phase properties happens at the same time over a long distance making them preferred for entertainment and other professional uses.

The red, green and blue colors produced by these sources normally have very narrow optical bandwidth making them similar to monochromatic ones. On mixing, the resulting images are normally very clear as other monochromatic sources of beams. It is not surprising that cathode tube displays, printers and even lamp-based beams are now made of them.

These beam sources however are associated with low level power emission. With cinema projectors demanding 10 W for each color or more, these projectors have to be designed to meet this power demand level for them to be usable. Their level of power sufficiency, maturity and cost effectiveness are the major setbacks when it comes to their application.

This are at times fitted with power-modulators particularly in the instances where the use of optical modulators is not practical due to low-power miniature devices. This is done to achieve better signals and laser diodes are used in most of the occasions. These particular diodes help achieve increased bandwidth to tens or hundreds of megahertz which in turns significantly improves resolutions.

The construction of RGB lasers can be achieved in several manners with the most common ones involving the use of three different lasers with each producing one of the three colors. This method of visible beams however comes with several limitations in comparison to the other methods that employ the use of near infrared rays.

When using an infrared solid state laser, a single beam of a near-infrared laser generating a single color is used. This is then converted into the three color under a several stages of converting non-linear frequency. The other common methods include combining parametric oscillators, frequency doublers method and frequency mixer method.

With the technological advancement, better performing RGB laser machines are being produced. With the current attempt to introduce the fourth color in this type of laser, something that will even improve their performers for the better. The expert prediction is that these forms of lasers will be replacing the other forms of beamers.




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