Developing next generation high-end projector technology

In the later years, laser has become the new light source generation of projection technology. Laser illumination provides a wide colour spectrum, long lifetime of lasers, low cost and much lower power consumption due to high electrical to optical efficiency of laser sources.

However, the laser display projection has a disadvantage of introducing speckle by scattering and interference of coherent laser beam from a diffuse surface.

 -The objective of our project is to develop next generation high-end picture projector technology platform based on red-green-blue laser sources, digital-micro-mirror device (DMD) display chip and de-speckle module, she explains.

Research will be done to develop methods and solutions for speckle reduction using Silicon micro-electro-mechanical system technology and other device concepts which can bring down speckle to below human perception limit.

Detailed experiments will be done using developed prototypes, and visual psycho-physics measurements will be performed to determine human speckle perception limits.

Kim Trinh Tran Thi is a PhD student at Vestfold University College. She received her BSc in Advanced Materials from The University of Technology-Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) in 2009.

She has also worked as visiting student at Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA)-Grenoble, France involved in quantum dots in 2009.

From 2009 to 2011, she did Master’s degree study in Micro and Nano systems technology at Vestfold University College.