Aside from the industry-standard Gaussian intensity profile, top hat and non-conventional
laser beam shapes, such as doughnut-shaped profile, are ever more required. The top hat …

Laser beams with a doughnut-shaped profile have garnered much attention for their
contribution to trapping nanoparticles and improving the scanning speed during laser-based …

It is reported here a large improvement in numerically calculated TEM00-mode side-pumped
solar laser efficiency, and brightness figure-of-merit by pumping two thin Nd: YAG laser rods …

Advances in both solar-pumped laser efficiency and brightness are herein presented.
Several solar laser prototypes with both end-side-pumping and side-pumping configurations …

In this paper, a doughnut-shaped solar laser beam from a Nd: YAG rod pumped through a
heliostat-parabolic mirror system is reported. A solar laser head was composed of a fused …

An alternative multirod solar laser end-side-pumping concept, based on the megawatt solar
furnace in France, is proposed to significantly improve the TEM00-mode solar laser output …

Improving the TEM00-mode laser efficiency is one of the main goals in solar laser research,
motivated by the significant importance these high-quality beams hold for fields, such as …

A compact side-pumped solar laser design is proposed to improve the TEM00-mode solar
laser output performance substantially. A double-stage secondary concentrator was …

An alternative multirod solar side-pumping concept for the production of multiple quasi-
Gaussian beams is proposed. This scheme was based on the One-Megawatt solar furnace …

Low-cost, lightweight, and easily available Fresnel lenses are a more alluring choice for
solar laser power production, when compared to the costly and complex heliostat-parabolic …