Preface

This section is the special issue for the 4th Laser Display and Lighting Conference (LDC’15) held at Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan, on April 22–24, 2015 to share information on laser display/lighting and related technologies. This special section contains some of the papers contributed to LDC’15. These papers were reviewed and accepted according to the editorial policy of Optical Review.

Laser Display is an emerging hot field, drawing attention from entertainment, education and business sectors for use in signage, cinema, and television. This special issue covers the wide range of the element technologies: red-, green- and blue-light sources, modulators, speckle controllers, and color management. Practical discussion is engaged on speckle management in this special issue.

LDC’15 was sponsored by The Japan Society of Applied Physics and organized by The Laser Display Technology (LDT) Group of the Optical Society of Japan, JSAP. The LDC committee would like to express its sincere appreciation to The Optical Society (OSA), The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), The Laser Society of Japan (LSJ), The Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association Japan (OITDA), The Japan Optoelectro-Mechanics Association (JOEM), The Chemical Society of Japan, The Society of Polymer Science, Japan, and The Imaging Society of Japan for their cooperation and technical co-sponsorship to LDC’15.

The challenge has been successful, followed by the 5th Laser Display Conference (LDC’16) to be held in Jena, Germany, on July 4–8, 2016. Finally, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all who contributed to LDC’15, and the Editor’s thank goes to honest reviewers for their fair judgments.

January 2016

Editor in Chief of the Special Section

Sunao Kurimura

LDC’15 Program Co-Chair