A path to practical Solar Pumped Lasers via Radiative Energy Transfer
Abstract
The optical conversion of incoherent solar radiation into a bright, coherent laser beam enables the application of nonlinear optics to solar energy conversion and storage. Here, we present an architecture for solar pumped lasers that uses a luminescent solar concentrator to decouple the conventional trade-off between solar absorption efficiency and the mode volume of the optical gain material. We report a 750-μm-thick Nd 3+ -doped YAG planar waveguide sensitized by a luminescent CdSe/CdZnS (core/shell) colloidal nanocrystal, yielding a peak cascade energy transfer of 14%, a broad spectral response in the visible portion of the solar spectrum, and an equivalent quasi-CW solar lasing threshold of 23 W-cm-2, or approximately 230 suns. The efficient coupling of incoherent, spectrally broad sunlight in small gain volumes should allow the generation of coherent laser light from intensities of less than 100 suns.
- Authors:
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Haifa (Israel)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Excitonics (CE)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1239277
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001088
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 14 SOLAR ENERGY; semiconductor lasers; solid-state lasers
Citation Formats
Reusswig, Philip D., Nechayev, Sergey, Scherer, Jennifer M., Hwang, Gyu Weon, Bawendi, Moungi G., Baldo, Marc. A., and Rotschild, Carmel. A path to practical Solar Pumped Lasers via Radiative Energy Transfer. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1038/srep14758.
Reusswig, Philip D., Nechayev, Sergey, Scherer, Jennifer M., Hwang, Gyu Weon, Bawendi, Moungi G., Baldo, Marc. A., & Rotschild, Carmel. A path to practical Solar Pumped Lasers via Radiative Energy Transfer. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14758
Reusswig, Philip D., Nechayev, Sergey, Scherer, Jennifer M., Hwang, Gyu Weon, Bawendi, Moungi G., Baldo, Marc. A., and Rotschild, Carmel. Mon .
"A path to practical Solar Pumped Lasers via Radiative Energy Transfer". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14758. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1239277.
@article{osti_1239277,
title = {A path to practical Solar Pumped Lasers via Radiative Energy Transfer},
author = {Reusswig, Philip D. and Nechayev, Sergey and Scherer, Jennifer M. and Hwang, Gyu Weon and Bawendi, Moungi G. and Baldo, Marc. A. and Rotschild, Carmel},
abstractNote = {The optical conversion of incoherent solar radiation into a bright, coherent laser beam enables the application of nonlinear optics to solar energy conversion and storage. Here, we present an architecture for solar pumped lasers that uses a luminescent solar concentrator to decouple the conventional trade-off between solar absorption efficiency and the mode volume of the optical gain material. We report a 750-μm-thick Nd 3+ -doped YAG planar waveguide sensitized by a luminescent CdSe/CdZnS (core/shell) colloidal nanocrystal, yielding a peak cascade energy transfer of 14%, a broad spectral response in the visible portion of the solar spectrum, and an equivalent quasi-CW solar lasing threshold of 23 W-cm-2, or approximately 230 suns. The efficient coupling of incoherent, spectrally broad sunlight in small gain volumes should allow the generation of coherent laser light from intensities of less than 100 suns.},
doi = {10.1038/srep14758},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = ,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
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