Automotive headlight evolved from incandescent, to halogen, to xenon, to LED, and most recently, to laser phosphor lamps with increasing efficiencies and brightness. This paper presents the development of laser phosphor headlights using glass phosphor and single crystal phosphor for efficient and high power operations. Laser diodes are used for pumping the phosphors producing the white light to be projected to the roadway. In addition, various configurations of the laser diodes, which are individual addressable, are to be presented. Together with the used of DLP and LCD imagers, intelligent headlights are developed with the abilities selectively scanning the imagers illuminating the roadway with varying intensities. The design of the systems and the experimental results will be presented.
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