Design of a high-power, high-brightness Nd:YAG solar laser

Dawei Liang; Joana Almeida; Dário Garcia

doi:10.1364/AO.53.001856

Design of a high-power, high-brightness Nd:YAG solar laser

Dawei Liang, Joana Almeida, Dário Garcia

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A simple high-power, high-brightness Nd:YAG solar laser pumping approach is presented in this paper. The incoming solar radiation is both collected and concentrated by four Fresnel lenses and redirected toward a Nd:YAG laser head by four plane-folding mirrors. A fused-silica secondary concentrator is used to compress the highly concentrated solar radiation to a laser rod. Optimum pumping conditions and laser resonator parameters are found through ZEMAX and LASCAD numerical analysis. Solar laser power of 96 W is numerically calculated, corresponding to the collection efficiency of 24 W/m². A record-high solar laser beam brightness figure of merit of 9.6 W is numerically achieved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1856-1861
Number of pages	6
Journal	Applied Optics
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.53.001856
Publication status	Published - 20 Mar 2014

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