UIDB/00068/2020
Laser Technology Group
Head of Research: Dr. Dawei Liang (Associate Professor)
Dr. Joana Almeida, Dr. Cláudia Vistas, Msc Bruno Tíburcio, Msc Dário Garcia, Msc Miguel Catela, Msc Hugo Costa
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
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
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
Joana Almeida
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
Associate Editor of Journal of Photonics for Energy (IF 1.836) from 2022
Dawei Liang
Reportagem sobre Laser Solar do CEFITEC pela Editora Renae Keep da SPIE Sept. 2022
The above report by SPIE on our solar laser was also mentioned by other media in several languages in Sept. 2022
https://myfeds.com/posouva-solarne-pohanene-lasery-do-novych-vysin-s-pumpovanim-se-ctyrmi-zrcadly/
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
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
