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Sure, rather easily in fact. You just need three laser diodes (Red, Green, and Blue), each pointed into the appropriate side of an RGB dichroic optical combiner cube. The cube redirects each of the three beams, combining them into a single beam emitted out of the remaining side (1) (the prisms can also function in reverse to split collimated a white light into constituent RGB components). In lieu of a cube, you could use three (R,G,B) dichroic notch reflectors (mirrors) (2) and combine the lasers 'manually', but the cubes are nice because you don't have to build a mount for the I individual mirrors. You can either scavenge a cube or dichroic mirrors from an old standard projector, or pick them up online for a few bucks. After that, just place the combined beam in the same path at the red laser shown in this example set-up, modulate the three lasers according to an image's RGB intensity values (you can separate an image frame into three RGB frames using openCV), and there you go. Tangentially, the basic idea of scanning a laser to form an image is what underpins the Virtual Retinal Display (VRD) - a head up display technology developed at the Univ. of Washington and later attempted to be commercialized by Magic Leap (ML) for Augmented Reality eyewear. Even though ML hasn't panned out, I still see the VRD as a very viable path forward for high resolution/field of view AR displays. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichroic_prism 2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichroic_filter |