10x Burning Speed Laser for BD and HD-DVD Media

Nichia Corp, one of the company that develop and manufacture blue laser diodes, unveiled a new laser able to burn single and double layers BD and HD-DVD media at a record speed: 10x. This laser could also burn 4-layers based media at 2x. Of course the power of this laser is higher than those currently available, but 2 majors problems remain:
- The lifetime of this laser diode would only be 1000 hours.
- One will also have to find the way to build burner able to spin at much higher speed, as well as media able to support such acceleration.
This new laser diode should arrive in H1 2008.