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Sharp has announced that it will begin volume production of two new blue-violet semiconductor lasers in April. With an output of 250mW, the GH04P25A2G and GH04P25A4G are capable of writing to dual layer Blu-ray Disc media at speeds as high as 6x. Here's part of their press release, translated from Japanese:

Sharp will mass-produce two models of the blue purple high power semiconductor laser that achieve the output of 250mW pulse of the top level in the industry that can be recorded about BD etc. two layer 4-6 X speed in April.

Best laptop industry's top small package adopted φ3.3 mm , and BD recorders for the PC desktop package φ5.6 mm commercialize the rapidly rising demand for recording BD market Lineup for strengthening.

Once the get rolling, Sharp plans to produce 700,000 blue-violet lasers per month. If you'd like to read more, Sharp's entire press release can be found here.