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Side-pumped continuous-wave Nd:YAG solar laser with 5.4% slope efficiency
| Resumo: | The authors report here a significant progress in side-pumped solar laser slope efficiency by pumping a 3.0 mm diameter, 30 mm length Nd:YAG single-crystal laser rod through a heliostat-parabolic mirror solar energy collection and concentration system with 0.9 m2 effective collection area. A large fused silica aspheric lens allowed an efficient focusing of the concentrated solar power from the focal zone of the parabolic mirror into the laser rod mounted within a novel two-dimensional semi-cylindrical pump cavity. 15.3 W continuous-wave 1064 nm solar laser power was measured, resulting in 5.40% slope efficiency and 2.43% solar-to-laser conversion efficency, being 2.08 and 2.30 times, respectively, more than the previous records by side-pumping configuration. The 5.40% slope efficiency is also 1.08 times more than the previous record with Nd:YAG single-crystal rod by end-side-pumping approach. By adopting an asymmetric laser resonator, this novel side-pumping scheme also enabled an efficient production of high-quality solar laser beams in either TEM11 (4.0 W), TEM01 * (doughnut-shaped, 2.9 W), TEM10 (3.2 W) or TEM00 (2.8 W) mode profiles. |
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| Autores principais: | Liang, Dawei |
| Outros Autores: | Vistas, Cláudia R.; Almeida, Joana; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Garcia, Dário |
| Assunto: | Doughnut-shaped Lower-order mode Nd:YAG Slope efficiency Solar-pumped laser TEM-mode Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Surfaces, Coatings and Films SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy |
| Ano: | 2019 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | The authors report here a significant progress in side-pumped solar laser slope efficiency by pumping a 3.0 mm diameter, 30 mm length Nd:YAG single-crystal laser rod through a heliostat-parabolic mirror solar energy collection and concentration system with 0.9 m2 effective collection area. A large fused silica aspheric lens allowed an efficient focusing of the concentrated solar power from the focal zone of the parabolic mirror into the laser rod mounted within a novel two-dimensional semi-cylindrical pump cavity. 15.3 W continuous-wave 1064 nm solar laser power was measured, resulting in 5.40% slope efficiency and 2.43% solar-to-laser conversion efficency, being 2.08 and 2.30 times, respectively, more than the previous records by side-pumping configuration. The 5.40% slope efficiency is also 1.08 times more than the previous record with Nd:YAG single-crystal rod by end-side-pumping approach. By adopting an asymmetric laser resonator, this novel side-pumping scheme also enabled an efficient production of high-quality solar laser beams in either TEM11 (4.0 W), TEM01 * (doughnut-shaped, 2.9 W), TEM10 (3.2 W) or TEM00 (2.8 W) mode profiles. |
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