At InfoComm, Wavien, Inc. showed its Recycling Light Technology (RLT) that increases brightness of LEDs for small target illumination in the digital projection.
We don’t normally cover components but this one is a brightness-increase mechanism that lowers power consumption so it’s especially important for battery-powered projectors.
This recycling collar is a very low-cost optical component that captures the wasted light in conventional optics designs, recycles the light and redirects it back into the output beam (so increasing efficiency, while reducing the power consumption).
The RLT technology improves brightness to LEDs with full color capability. The range of recycling can have an increase of brightness from 30% for the red, to over 180% for the white. This equates to an energy saving of 25% to 65% in power consumption or increase in battery lifetime by 30% to 280%.