nm cr lisaf laser focused to 30 mw cm 2 the invention has many applications military such as the army can be used for terrain map presentation and analysis visualization and prototyping for design and manufacturing battlefield awareness and war fighter visualization of the battlefield other military and civilian applications are the need for 3d color displays in air traffic control medical applications can be used to help train physicians and healthcare providers training on medical models of body organs and skeletal structure would allow medical persons to be able to train on images of their patients before and while caring for them fig8 illustrates a preferred optical layout 300 for an optically written projection display system using a single laser source 310 310 single laser light source can be a near infrared emitting laser diode emitting in the range of approximately 950 to approximately 980 nm 320 beam shaper lens for collection shaping and homogenization of the laser light 330 spatial light modulator device for simultaneously splitting and modulating the laser beam 350 projection optics for projection of the modulated laser light onto the two dimensional upconversion display screen 340 video image signal unit for conversion of video input to control and timing signals to spatial light modulator 360 two dimensional upconversion display screen screen can be a transmissive display and a reflective display referring to fig8 light can be generated from a single laser source 310 such as but not limited to from a vertical.