24 April 2023 Solar laser pumping approach for both simultaneous and stable multibeam operation under tracking error condition
Miguel Catela, Dawei Liang, Cláudia R. Vistas, Hugo Costa, Dário Garcia, Bruno D. Tibúrcio, Joana Almeida
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Abstract

A solar laser pumping approach to achieve both simultaneous and stable multibeam solar laser operation under solar tracking error condition is proposed here. By using a heliostat, solar radiation is firstly redirected to a parabolic mirror, secondarily concentrated by an aspheric lens, and finally absorbed by four Nd:YAG rods within a pump cavity using a homogenizer. Zemax® and LASCAD analysis demonstrate that four simultaneous and stable 1064-nm continuous-wave solar laser emissions with similar multimode power levels can be achieved even with azimuthal solar tracking errors up to ± 0.5 deg. The variation on the multimode solar laser power of the four rods is significantly reduced from 32.38% and 55.52% without the homogenizer to 0.00% and 0.21% with the homogenizer for ± 0.1 deg and ± 0.2 deg azimuthal solar tracking error, respectively. More importantly, simultaneous and stable TEM00 mode solar laser emissions from the four rods are also numerically attained under solar tracking error condition.

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Miguel Catela, Dawei Liang, Cláudia R. Vistas, Hugo Costa, Dário Garcia, Bruno D. Tibúrcio, and Joana Almeida "Solar laser pumping approach for both simultaneous and stable multibeam operation under tracking error condition," Journal of Photonics for Energy 13(2), 028001 (24 April 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JPE.13.028001
Received: 10 February 2023; Accepted: 4 April 2023; Published: 24 April 2023
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KEYWORDS
Solar energy

Laser soldering

Nd:YAG lasers

Optical pumping

Transmission electron microscopy

Rod lasers

Laser resonators

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