Solar-Pumped Lasers and Sustainable Laser Beams: Current and Future Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 14 May 2025 | Viewed by 1746
Special Issue Editors
Interests: solar-pumped lasers; applied optics; laser technology; concentrated solar power; tracking error in solar collectors; industrial decarbonization
Interests: solid-state lasers; solar power concentration; optics and lasers
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Dear Colleagues,
Laser technology is widely used in several industrial and scientific areas, such as laser material processing, the medical industry, energy production, communications and space applications.
Solar-pumped lasers, being a sustainable source of coherent optical radiation, offer the prospect of a drastic reduction in the cost for high and average laser power applications, opening pathways to environmental and economical benefits in different technological segments, such as green hydrogen production and renewable energy cycles.
However, the search to improve productivity in order to make this technology economically competitive and expand to new segments of businesses is a key issue. This demand has led to a trend towards the implementation of multiple laser beams on a single work-piece/installation. On one hand, this new approach is scalable in productivity through multiplication, increasing the cost efficiency. On the other hand, it allows simultaneous multi-beam/multi-wavelength operation and different laser regimes, aiming to replace classical lamp- and diode-pumped lasers in laser processing tasks, ensuring a sustainable laser power production pattern, thus radically expanding multi-task laser applications.
The main current and future challenges of sustainable laser beams are to increase the efficiency, versatility and scalability compared with other classical, fossil-fuel-based laser beams, as a more robust and available implementation, suitable for different fields of low-carbon industry and poligeneration.
This Special Issue aims to collect original research articles, reviews and case studies on sustainable generated laser beams and their potential innovative applications. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Advancements in solar-pumped lasers using new materials to maximize the collection efficiency and brightness.
- Multi-beam configurations in solar-pumped lasers and their potential to increase the versatility, laser emission stability and uniformity of solar-pumped lasers.
- Potential applications of sustainable laser beams in low-carbon industry and poligeneration.
- Prospects of solar-pumped lasers for green hydrogen production.
- Integration of solar-pumped lasers in industrial installations.
- Possibilities of integrated operation of solar collectors, sustainable laser generation, and how energy infrastructure should evolve as the grid becomes more decarbonised and decentralized.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Bruno D. Tibúrcio
Dr. Dawei Liang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- solar-pumped lasers
- multi-beam
- solar collectors
- low-carbon industry
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