Abstract :
I am standing in a twilit underground lab looking at the most powerful car headlight in the world. Its source, a blue-laser diode, is 1000 times as bright as an LED but uses just two-thirds the energy. I had to surrender my passport to see it, for I\´m at BMW\´s highly secure, steel-and-glass research mecca, the FIZ (for Forschungs- und Innovationszentrum, or Research and Innovation Center), an immense complex in Munich replete with workshops, clay modelers¿ "caves," and a vast wind tunnel.
Keywords :
LED lamps; road vehicles; semiconductor lasers; BMW; FIZ; Forschungs- und Innovationszentrum; LED; Munich; Research and Innovation Center; blue-laser diode; car headlight; clay modelers; wind tunnel; workshops; Feature extraction; Laser beams; Light emitting diodes; Optical waveguides; Surface emitting lasers; Waveguide lasers;
