The new Audi R8 will soon hit the showrooms and the German car maker has loaded this sports car with a slew of technologically advanced features. One of the highlight is the laser assisted headlamps. The R8 uses LED headlights which can be supplemented by a laser high-beam lighting module as an option. Prior to the laser high-beam lighting, Audi had introduced lighting technologies such as LED daytime running lights and Matrix LED headlights to its products.
As an option, the latest car development by Audi can be equipped with a laser spot as the high-beam headlight. The special appeal of laser lighting is that it uses high-intensity laser diodes, which generate a lot of light energy from a very small component. Compared to LED high-beam headlights, laser high-beams attain nearly twice the lighting range.
Each headlight contains one laser module that operates with four high-intensity laser diodes. This module bundles the four intense blue-light laser beams. Then a phosphor converter transforms the blue light into pure white light. An identifying characteristic of the laser headlights is their blue light signature. Standard equipment in the new R8 includes an LED headlight system. All lighting functions are produced with 37 LEDs per headlight.
The 2015 Audi R8 will debut at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. All the details, including the power output figures, of the new Audi R8 would be revealed at the motor show.