UIDB/00068/2020

Laser Technology Group

Head of Research: Dr. Dawei Liang (Associate Professor with Habilitation)

Dr. Joana Almeida, Dr. Cláudia Vistas, Dr. Bruno Tíburcio, Dr. Dário Garcia, Msc Miguel Catela, Msc Hugo Costa

Our solar lasers laboratory was established to enhance both the collection efficiency and beam quality of solar-pumped lasers, resulting in the following research highlights:

A significant advance in solar laser collection efficiency was achieved by our team in PROMES-CNRS in (2012)

CSP TODAY http://social.csptoday.com/technology/sfera-flushes-out-groundbreaking-csp-research

Our research "Design of ultrahigh brightness solar-pumped disk laser" was selected by

Spotlight on Optics, Sept.14, (2012), The Optical Society of America.

http://www.opticsinfobase.org/spotlight/summary.cfm?uri=ao-51-26-6382

Our research on the first TEM₀₀ solar-pumped laser was reported by Senior Editor Gail Overton in World News:"Novel Lasers: Solar-Pumped Nd:YAG Lasers Getting Brighter"

Laser Focus World, Dec. 9, (2013)

http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/print/volume-49/issue-12/world-news/novel-lasers-solar-pumped-nd-yag-lasers-getting-brighter.htm

Our research article "A 40 W cw Nd:YAG solar laser pumped through a heliostat: a parabolic mirror system" was highlighted by Laser Physics in (2013)

Laser Physics, Highlights of 2013

http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1555-6611/page/Highlights-of-2013

Advances in high efficiency solar-powered laser

Prezi Presentation Jan. 9, (2014) by C Byers highlihted our solar laser researches

http://prezi.com/lr95vsblpt4y/advances-in-high-efficiency-solar-powered-lasers/

The Next Big Future, 09-10-(2014) highlighted our solar laser researches

Towards Megawatt Solar Powered Lasers for Magnesium Production and future space applications

http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/10/solar-powered-lasers-for-magnesium.html

"Most efficient continuous-wave 1064nm solar laser emission within a laboratory"

Key Scientific Article contributing to excellence in energy research

Renewable Energy Global Innovations, Oct. 13, (2016)

https://renewableenergyglobalinnovations.blogspot.com/search?q=solar+laser

NEWS BREAKS:”1064nm solar laser achieves record power output and efficiency”

our most efficient 1064nm solar laser was reported by Senior Editor Gail Overton

Laser Focus World, Dec. pp.7 (2016)

http://digital.laserfocusworld.com/laserfocusworld/201612?sub_id=T2n5brVOAT8f&u1=DA1216&pg=9#pg9

Media Report of our solar laser laboratory, 2018

SIC Notícias Oct. 30, 2018 (63100 Views, one of the highest nnumber of views from SIC noícias videos)

https://www.facebook.com/sicnoticias/videos/316129865843740/

REN https://www.ren.pt/pt-PT/media/comunicados/detalhe/laser_para_captacao_de_energia_do_sol_premio_ren_

e_expresso_dao_a_conhecer_exemplos_de_inovacao_nas_universidades_portuguesas/

EXPRESSO: Prioridade: eficiência energética (10 VÍDEOS QUE NÃO PODE PERDER) “E se, em vez de usarmos painéis solares, pudéssemos ter um laser no espaço a captar a energia do Sol e a enviá-la para a Terra? É a proposta dos investigadores da FCT Nova.” Nov. 20, 2018

https://expresso.pt/economia/2018-11-20-Prioridade-eficiencia-energetica

Cover page of Journal of Photonics for Energy, July-September， 2020

Joana Almeida, Dawei Liang, Hugo Costa, Dário Garcia, Bruno D. Tibúrcio, Miguel Catela, Cláudia R. Vistas

Seven-rod pumping concept for simultaneous emission of seven TEM00-mode solar laser beams

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-photonics-for-energy?SSO=1

Antena 1 "90 s de Ciência" 2021

Joana Almeida

https://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-1049-joana-almeida/?fbclid=IwAR0Q-nD38d-L24GoEPFWlqpvWxnxEqAYthwMW8WNlDqugIh12tK98CI0z9U

Dawei Liang was among “World’s Top 2% Scientists list” by Stanford University in 2021.

https://www.fct.unl.pt/en/news/2021/11/more-researchers-nova-school-science-and-technology-world-top

Guest Editor of Energies: Special Issue "Challenge and Research Trends of Solar Concentrators" 2021-2022

Dawei Liang

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/special_issues/Solar_Concentrators#editors

Guest Editor of Energies: Special Issue "Challenge and Research Trends of Solar Concentrators II" 2022.2023

Dawei Liang, Joana Almeida and Cláudia R. Vistas

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/special_issues/X76516D6B3

Associate Editor of Journal of Photonics for Energy from 2022

Dawei Liang

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-photonics-for-energy/editorial-board#navBarAnchor

SPIE News Report on our solar laser design by Senior Editor Renae Keep, Sept. 2022

https://spie.org/news/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping?SSO=1&fbclid=IwAR00Ui0m0rtWWj1gA8MejFp9-ltS_5Lu41Z0QSdECcr2S1s2hCYHEuPen0w

The above report by SPIE on our solar laser was also mentioned by other media in Sept. 2022

https://earthpressnews.com/fr/propulser-les-lasers-solaires-vers-de-nouveaux-sommets-grace-au-pompage-a-quatre-miroirs/

https://mydroll.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

https://samacharcentral.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/https://sixthnews.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/1567611678002479104

https://news.thenightale.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

https://physicsworld.com/a/new-design-for-solar-laser-could-have-applications-in-space/

https://www.azooptics.com/News.aspx?newsID=27879

https://www.miragenews.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-850928/

https://spaceandplanetarynewswire.com/impact/2022/09/08/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping

https://rentsobe.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

https://globalsecuritywire.com/infrastructure-technology/2022/09/08/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping

https://www.gofarzee.it/blog/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

https://topteknews.net/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping-s206349.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/964051

https://dubaitechnews.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

https://todayschronic.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

https://www.trendradars.com/channels/article-1704167-taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/

Our research on three Ce:Nd:YAG rod solar laser was reported by Senior Editor Sally Johnson

LASER FOCUS WORLD Oct. 4th 2022

"Solar pumping converts broadband sunlight into efficient laser light" A novel three Ce:Nd:YAG rod solar-pumped laser achieves 4.64% solar-to-laser energy conversion efficiency

https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/14283698/solar-pumping-converts-broadband-sunlight-into-efficient-laser-light

科学家利用太阳能泵浦技术实现了4.64%的激光转化效率 Oct 9th 2022

(Scientist utilize solar pumping technique to realize 4.64% laser conversion efficiency)

https://laser.ofweek.com/2022-10/ART-8130-2400-30575824.html

http://www.dushi.cx/wap/wap.php?action=article&id=280501

https://www.gkzhan.com/news/detail/149262.html

http://bluestream-bj.com/view.php?id=222

Cover page of Journal of Photonics for Energy, Volume 12. Issue 4, 2022

On the cover: The figure is from the article "Multirod approach to enhance solar-to-laser conversion efficiency in the Odeillo solar furnace"

Hugo Costa, Joana Almeida, Dawei Liang, Dário Garcia, Miguel Catela, Bruno D. Tibúrcio, Cláudia R. Vistas

https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-photonics-for-energy

SPIE Tweet 19 Dez. 2022

Researchers from @NOVAunl improved solar-to-laser power conversion efficiency with a multirod solar #laser station for the megawatt #solar furnace in Odeillo, France

https://twitter.com/SPIEtweets/status/1604944689681014792

BOOK: MDPI AG

Challenge and Research Trends of Solar Concentrators Dec. 2022

https://www.mdpi.com/books/book/6447-challenge-and-research-trends-of-solar-concentrators

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/challenge-and-research-trends-of-solar-concentrators-dawei-liang/1142834483?ean=9783036560373

Editors: Dawei Liang (NOVA University of Lisbon) Changming Zhao (Beijing Institute of Technology)

ISBN-13: 9783036560373

MDPI Energies Tweet Highly Cited Paper Jan 2023

https://twitter.com/energies_mdpi/status/1619213831888113664

BOOK: Springer International Publishing

Solar-Pumped Lasers

With Examples of Numerical Analysis of Solid-State Lasers March 2023