Solar-pumped tem00 mode nd:yag laser

Dawei Liang; Joana Almeida

doi:10.1364/OE.21.025107

Solar-pumped tem00 mode nd:yag laser

Dawei Liang, Joana Almeida

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Here we show a significant advance in solar-pumped laser beam brightness by utilizing a 1.0 m diameter Fresnel lens and a 3 mm diameter Nd:YAG single-crystal rod. The incoming solar radiation is firstly focused by the Fresnel lens on a solar tracker. A large aspheric lens and a 2D-CPC concentrator are then combined to further compress the concentrated solar radiation along the thin laser rod within a V-shaped pumping cavity. 2.3 W cw TEM00 (M2 ? 1.1) solar laser power is finally produced, attaining 1.9 W laser beam brightness figure of merit, which is 6.6 times higher than the previous record. For multimode operation, 8.1 W cw laser power is produced, corresponding to 143% enhancement in collection efficiency.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25107-25112
Number of pages	6
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	21
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.025107
Publication status	Published - 21 Oct 2013

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