UID/FIS/00068/2013
Laser Technology Group
Head of Research: Dr. Dawei Liang (Associate Professor)
Our solar-pumped lasers laboratory was established to largely enhance both the collection efficiency and beam quality of present-day 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
Our research"Side-pumped continuous-wave Cr:Nd:YAG ceramic solar laser" was selected as a Key Scientific Article contributing to excellence in energy research
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
Side-pumped continuous-wave Nd:YAG solar laser with 5.4% slope efficiency https://t.co/WW0sRjmBnW via @ElsevierPhysics https://t.co/i4gv6V23vF
Featured content of Journal of Photonics for Energy, 2019
Joana Almeida, Dawei Liang, Bruno D. Tibúrcio, Dário Garcia, Cláudia R. Vistas, “Numerical modeling
of a four-rod pumping scheme for improving TEM00-mode solar laser performance,” J. Photon.
Energy 9(1), 018001 (2019)
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-photonics-for-energy
TWITTER by African Physics, May 10 2019
Homogenization and penetration effects of 1064 nm Nd:YAG solar laser and concentrated solar radiations on ex vivo chicken breast samples http://j.mp/2Yu0am7 via @AIP_Publishing
https://twitter.com/AfricanPhysics/status/1127257754945687552
Featured content of Journal of Photonics for Energy, 2019
Bruno Tibúrcio, Dawei Liang, Joana Almeida, Dárico Garcia, Cláudia R. Vistas, “Dual-rod pumping approach for tracking error compensation in solar-pumped lasers” J. Photon. Energy 9(2), 028001 (2019)
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-photonics-for-energy
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
developed up-scale 7-rod model with an improved beam quality, #justpublished in #SPIE's Journal of #Photonics for #Energy: https://bit.ly/33ohsFd #renewables
Featured content of Journal of Photonics for Energy, 2021
Cláudia R. Vistas, Dawei Liang, Joana Almeida, Bruno D. Tibúrcio, Dário Garcia, Miguel Catela,
Hugo Costa, Emmanuel Guillot, "Ce:Nd:YAG side-pumped solar laser," J. Photon. Energy 11(1) 018001 (19 January 2021)
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-photonics-for-energy
Antena 1 "90 s de Ciência" 2021
Contact:
Prof. Dawei Liang dl@fct.unl.pt
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
