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Record Nr.

UNINA9910720062803321

Autore

Liang Dawei

Titolo

Solar-Pumped Lasers : With Examples of Numerical Analysis of Solid-State Lasers / / by Dawei Liang, Joana Almeida, Cláudia Vistas, Bruno Tibúrcio, Dário Garcia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9783031247859

9783031247842

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages)

Collana

Green Energy and Technology, , 1865-3537

Disciplina

621.47

621.3661

Soggetti

Telecommunication

Lasers

Electric power distribution

Microwaves, RF Engineering and Optical Communications

Laser

Energy Grids and Networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.