This section is the special issue for the 10th LASER DISPLAY and LIGHTING CONFERENCE (LDC2022) held in a hybrid format during April 19-22, 2022. The aim is to share information on laser display/lighting and related technologies. The section contains some of the papers presented in LDC2022. These papers were reviewed and accepted according to the editorial policy of Optical Review.

Laser Display and Lighting are cutting-edge technologies, drawing attention from the entertainment, education and business sectors for use in signage, cinema, television, and automobiles. Laser illumination has already been installed in automotive lighting, store lighting, and event illumination. This special issue covers a wide range of technologies: aerial displays, 3D displays, speckle evaluation, and image-quality evaluation for super-high resolution. Many efforts are paid for a deep and detailed discussion on emerging technologies in this special issue.

LDC2022 was co-sponsored by The Optical Society of Japan (OSJ) and The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) and organized by The Laser Display Technology (LDT) Group of OSJ. The LDC committee would like to express its sincere appreciation to The Int’l Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), The Optica (formerly OSA), The Laser Society of Japan (LSJ), The Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association Japan (OITDA), The Japan Optomechatronics 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 LDC2022.

The challenge has been successful, followed by the 13th Laser Display Conference (LDC2023) to be held in Yokohama, on April 17-21, 2023. Finally, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all who contributed to LDC2022, and the Editor’s thank goes to honest reviewers for their fair judgments.

January 2023

Editor in Chief of the Special Section

Sunao Kurimura

LDC2022 Program Co-Chair