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Bear with me here-- I understand lasers to be highly specific wavelength diode light that is bounced around in a combination of prisms and mirrors to create hig
by brokentone 13y ago
Bear with me here-- I understand lasers to be highly specific wavelength diode light that is bounced around in a combination of prisms and mirrors to create highly concentrated, highly directional light.
In this case, it's then diffused again through a yellow phosphorus lens.
I'm not doubting the numbers in efficiency gain, but I'm having a hard time figuring them out. Seems that there can only be loss from converting this light "back and forth" (but more than likely I don't understand how lasers work).
- MBCook 13y agoWell, let's assume these lasers are 10x as efficient as LEDs used in headlights. Even if you lost 70% of the light in the process of exciting phosphorus, you'd still have a net gain. My question would be: are modern headlights really that much of a drain?
- Cairn 13y agoDecent LEDs are, currently, about 6x less efficacious than the theoretical maximum of any light emitter, as measured by the human eye. Incandescents are much poorer performers, of course.
- ID_HOME 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemiluminescence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemiluminescence