Solar-Pumped Lasers: With Examples of Numerical Analysis of Solid-State Lasers

by Dawei Liang, Joana Almeida, Clïudia Vistas, Bruno Tibïrcio, Dïrio Garcia

Overview

This textbook is a comprehensive review of many different areas in solar-pumped lasers design and characterization. It enables readers to develop their skills in general solid-state laser design and solar collector design and provides numerous solved exercises at the end of each chapter to further this development.

This book begins by introducing the brief history of solar-pumped laser and its potential applications. It explains the basic theories of imaging and non-imaging primary, secondary, and tertiary solar concentrators. It discusses solar-pumped solid-state laser theory and solar-to-laser power conversion efficiencies. There are chapters dedicated to ZEMAX and LASCAD numerical simulation tools, to help develop readers’ skills in innovative solid-state laser design.

This book is one of the first books to relate concentrated solar energy technologies to solid-state laser technologies and is therefore of interest to students, academics, engineers, and laser and optical system designers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031247842
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	05/01/2023
Series:	Green Energy and Technology
Edition description:	2023
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Dawei Liang is an Associate Professor of the Physics Department of New University of Lisbon.

He obtained B.S. and MSc. degrees from Tianjin University in 1984 and 1986 respectively.

He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Optoelectronics from Chongqing University in 1991. He obtained an equivalent Ph.D. degree in Optoelectronics and Microelectronics from New University of Lisbon in 1995. He has more than 130 publications. He was awarded outstanding reviewer status by Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells and Optics & Laser Technology. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Photonics for Energy. He also serves as Guest Editor of Energies. Several world records in solar-to-laser conversion efficiency and beam brightness were established by his solar laser team. Some of his researches on solar lasers were highlighted by Editors of CSP Today, Spotlights on Optics in 2012, Laser Physics in 2013, Laser Focus World in 2013, 2016 and 2022, Journal of Photonics for Energy during 2020-2022 and SPIE News in 2022. He was among the “World’s Top 2% Scientists list” by Stanford University in 2021.

Dr. Joana Almeida holds a FCT junior researcher position on solar-pumped lasers. She obtained BSc. and MSc. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from New University of Lisbon. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Physics Engineering from New University of Lisbon in 2017. She has 68 publications and acted as a reviewer for 15 journals like Optics Letters, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, and Renewable Energy. She is now serving as Guest Editor of Energies. Some of her contributions on solar laser research were highlighted by Editors of CSP Today, Spotlights on Optics in 2012, Laser Focus World in 2013, 2016 and 2022. Three of her first author publications were featured by both Laser Physics and Journal of Photonics for Energy.

Dr. Cláudia R. Vistas is a postdoctoral researcher on solar-pumped lasers in New University of Lisbon. She obtained her Ph.D. degree under the MIT-Portugal program in Bioengineering Systems from University of Lisbon in 2012. She graduated in Biotechnological Engineering from University of Algarve in 2007. She has more than 60 publications, some of which were highlighted by Laser Focus World in 2016 and 2022, and Journal of Photonics for Energy during 2020-2022. She was a reviewer for more than 10 journals, and also serves as Guest Editor of Energies.

Dr. Bruno D. Tibúrcio obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics Engineering from New University of Lisbon in 2022. He has participated in two optical research projects of both Telecommunications Institute of University of Aveiro and University of Algarve. He has also collaborated at CBE, a technological company of optical fiber communications in Lisbon. He has more than 40 publications, some of which were highlighted by Laser Focus World in 2022 and Journal of Photonics for Energy during 2019-2022. He has served as a reviewer for more than 10 journals.

MSc. Dario Garcia is concluding his Ph.D. research on solar-pumped lasers in New University of Lisbon. He obtained his Master degree in Physics Engineering from the New University of Lisbon in 2013. He has more than 36 publications. He has served as a reviewer for 5 journals. His co-authored article was featured by Laser Focus World in 2022.

Table of Contents

Brief History of Solar-Pumped Lasers.- Primary Solar Concentrators.- Solar-pumped Solid-State Laser Theory.- Properties of Solid-State Laser Materials for Solar-Pumped Lasers.- Numerical Tools for Solid-State Laser Design.- Multimode Solar-Pumped Lasers.- High Brightness Solar-Pumped Lasers.- Solar Tracking Errors in Solar-Pumped Lasers.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"​Solar-pumped lasers is a special kind of lasers that transform broad-band ,incoherent solar light into narrow-band, coherent laser directly, with advantages of least energy transform procedure, higher energy transfrm effciency, higher reliability and longer lifetime. It is suitable for application under some conditions, for example, in space.This book is the second book in the subject, the first book in English, and with its characterization in modeling and simulation with ZEMAX and LASCAD. This book will be a great contribution to the laser scientist and engineer in this fied, especially for students in solid state laser designing. The main author is the famous scientist in solar-pumped lasers, with aboudance laser knowledge and research experience. I believe this book will be a great success."

Professor Zhao Changming, Beijing Institute of Technology

"To my knkowledge, this would be the first book exclusively devoted to solar pumped lasers, at least, written in English. This book will rank the best one in the field of numerical simulation of solar pumped lasers. There are no books in this topic since the 80's. Thus, this book will definetively make a huge difference. Dawei Liang ... has a very long trajectory in this field and he is very well known researcher."

Dr Alejandro Datas Medina, UPM, Madrid

"Is there a need for such a book at this level>> Yes. In fact, the topic is not comprehensively described in the literature yet. The literature is fragmented (only scientific papers are available), while didactical examples and excercises are not available. Yes. The book will be interesting for all people working in solar-pumped lasers, as well as the community working on solar concentrators and their applications. The table of Contents is adequately structured and the topics coverage appears balanced. The work appearswell organized. The topics are in logical sequence. Strengths: the book provides a comprehensive review of many different topics required or involved in solar-pumped lasers design and characterization. Some of these topics are useful for general solid-state laser design; some other topics are useful for solar collector design and applications. Solved excercises are given at the end of each chapter to make the reader familiar with the topic. Practical examples and excercises are hard or impossible to found in the literature or in the web, the book is able to address this issue."

Dr Elisa Sani, Italian National Instituion of Optics, Italy