Modular Scalable Solar Light Concentrator for Pumping a Nd:Cr:YAG Laser Medium

Sebastián González,Ricardo Rojas,R.A. Wheatley,Birger Seifert,Ulrich G. Volkmann,Sascha Wallentowitz

Modular Scalable Solar Light Concentrator for Pumping a Nd:Cr:YAG Laser Medium

2017

Sebastián González
Ricardo Rojas
R.A. Wheatley
Birger Seifert
Ulrich G. Volkmann
Sascha Wallentowitz

A solar-pumped Nd:Cr:YAG ceramic laser is presented that is pumped by Fresnel lens sunlight concentrators via polymer optical fibers. Focusing into the laser medium via aspheric lenses allows to improve the laser beam quality.

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Laser power scaling
Laser beam quality
Laser
Laser pumping
Optoelectronics
X-ray laser
Optics
Diode-pumped solid-state laser
Distributed feedback laser
Lens (optics)
Materials science
Fresnel lens

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