Highly efficient solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 26399-26405

  Liang, Dawei ^a   Almeida, Joana ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; EFFICIENCY; LASER BEAMS; MAGNESIUM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PUMPING (LASER); SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR RADIATION;

COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; CONCENTRATED SOLAR RADIATION; HIGH SLOPE EFFICIENCY; ND : YAG LASERS; ND:YAG SINGLE CRYSTALS; RECENT PROGRESS; SECONDARY CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR-PUMPED LASERS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLID STATE LASER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LENSES; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84555223626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.026399     Document Type: Article

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