Funding Information: This work was supported by FCT \u2013 Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e Tecnologia, I.P. by project reference UIDB/00068/2020 (https://doi.org/0.54499/UIDB/00068/2020). The FCT fellowship grants 2021.06172.BD (https://doi.org/10.54499/2021.06172.BD), CEECIND/03081/2017, CEECIND/09483/2023, and SFRH/BPD/125116/2016 of Hugo Costa, Joana Almeida, Bruno D. Tib\u00FArcio, and Cl\u00E1udia...
This work has received funding from the Horizon Europe program, grant agreement number 101069789: project RELiEF \u2013 Recycling of Lithium from secondary raw materials and further. The authors would like to thank Pegmatitica - Sociedade Mineira de Pegmatites, Lda, for providing the working sample. This research was anchored by the RESOLUTION LAB, an infrastructure at NOVA School of Science and Technology. Dis...
Funding Information: This work was supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Technologia, under grant [UIDB/00068/2020] (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/00068/2020). The FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. fellowship grants 2021.06172.BD (https://doi.org/10.54499/2021.06172.BD), and CEECIND/09483/2023 of Hugo Costa, and Bruno D. Tibúrcio, respectively, are acknowledged Publisher Copyright: © 2025 ...
Funding Information: The work has received funding from the Horizon Europe program, grant agreement number 101069789: project RELiEF – Recycling of Lithium from secondary raw materials and further. CENSE is supported by national funding through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., in the scope of the projects UIDB/04085/2020 (DOI 10.54499/UIDB/04085/2020) and UIDP/04085/2020 (DOI 10.54499/UIDP/04...
Financial support of the strategic project (UIDB/00068/2020) of the Science and Technology Foundation of the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (FCT – MCTES) is acknowledged. Financial support by the Solar Facilities for European Research Area – Third Phase (SFERA III), Grant Agreement No. 823802 is gratefully acknowledged. The FCT-MCTES fellowship grants PD/BD/ 142827/2018, SFRH/BP...
© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.; TEM00-mode operation is a requirement in many laser-based applications due to the small divergence and high-power density of the emitted laser beam. A solar laser scheme was designed and numerically studied with the goal of increasing the solar-to-laser power conversion efficiency in the TEM00-mode operation. The collection and primary concentration of ...
CEECIND/09483/2023. © 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.; A multirod Ce:Nd:YAG solar laser approach, using a Fresnel lens as a primary concentrator, is here proposed with the aim of considerably increasing the efficiency of solar-pumped lasers. Fresnel lenses are cost-effective, rendering solar lasers more economically competitive. In this work, solar-pumped radiation collected and concentr...
Funding Information: The FCT-MCTES fellowship grant PD/BD/1428/2018 of Cláudia R. Vistas, Miguel Catela, Hugo Costa, Dário Garcia and Joana Almeida, respectively, are acknowledged. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 by the authors.; A multirod solar laser approach is here proposed to attain uniform and stable multibeam emission under non-continuous solar tracking. A Fresnel lens was used as the primary concentrator. T...
Funding Information: This work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia ( FCT ) through a postdoctoral fellowship ( SFRH/BPD/880972/2012 to A.B.F.) and grant LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-030845 , co-funded by FEDER under the Lisboa2020 Partnership Agreement and by national funds through FCT (to A.B.F., R.M.C., J.A.d.S., and A.J.O.-M.); by a doctoral fellowship from the Gulbenkian Foundation (to J.A.d.S.); ...
Publisher Copyright: © 2023 by the authors.; A compact side-pumped solar laser design using a Ce:Nd:YAG laser medium is here proposed to improve the TEM00-mode solar laser output performance, more specifically the beam brightness. The solar laser performance of the Ce:Nd:YAG laser head was numerically studied by both ZEMAX® v13 and LASCADTM v1 software. Maximum multimode laser power of 99.5 W was computed for t...