Enhancing Sun-pumped laser performance by a truncated fused silica elliptical pump cavity

Author

Liang, Dawei ; Pereira, Rui ; Bernardes, Pedro

Author_Institution

Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Caparica

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Sun-pumped lasers are useful for space and terrestrial applications. In terms of collection efficiency and beam quality, solar lasers still have a way to go to seriously compete with solar PV-cell diode-pumped solid-state lasers. The main challenges are the needs of both doubling the reported collection efficiency of 6.7 W/m² and improving the beam quality of today´s solar lasers. To enhance the solar laser performance, a truncated fused silica elliptical pump cavity is proposed.

Keywords

laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; neodymium; optical pumping; silicon compounds; solar absorber-convertors; solid lasers; SiO₂; Sun-pumped laser performance; YAG:Nd; beam quality; collection efficiency doubling; first-stage parabolic mirror; rod laser; solar lasers; truncated fused silica elliptical pump cavity; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Mirrors; Optical materials; Power lasers; Pump lasers; Reflectivity; Silicon compounds; Solid lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385858

Filename

4385858