Head of Research: Dr. Dawei Liang (Associate Professor)
Dr. Joana Almeida, Dr. Cláudia Vistas, Dr. Bruno Tíburcio, Msc 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)
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
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
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
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
SPIE News Report on our solar laser design by Senior Editor Renae Keep, Sept. 2022
The above report by SPIE on our solar laser was also mentioned by other media in Sept. 2022
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://rentsobe.com/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://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/
Our research on three Ce:Nd:YAG rod solar laser was reported by Senior Editor Sally Johnson
LASER FOCUS WORLD Oct. 4 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
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
Editors: Dawei Liang (NOVA University of Lisbon) Changming Zhao (Beijing Institute of Technology)
ISBN-13: 9783036560373
BOOK: Springer International Publishing
Solar-Pumped Lasers
With Examples of Numerical Analysis of Solid-State Lasers March 2023
Dawei Liang, Joana Almeida, Cláudia Vistas, Bruno Tibúrcio, Dário Garcia
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/solar-pumped-lasers-dawei-liang/1142804735
http://www.lavoisier.eu/books/electricity-electronics/solar-pumped-lasers/description_4845770
ISBN-13: 9783031247842
Contact:
Prof. Dawei Liang dl@fct.unl.pt
https://www.df.fct.unl.pt/noticias/2022/09/parabens-professor-dawei-liang
https://www.fct.unl.pt/en/news/2021/11/more-researchers-nova-school-science-and-technology-world-top
https://www.facebook.com/sicnoticias/videos/316129865843740/
http://www.fct.unl.pt/noticias/2016/10/laser-solar-mais-eficiente-do-mundo-esta-na-fct-nova
https://discordk.com/taking-solar-powered-lasers-to-new-heights-with-four-mirror-pumping/