DPAL: A new class of lasers for cw power beaming at ideal photovoltaic cell wavelengths
作者:
W. F. Krupke,
R. J. Beach,
S. A. Payne,
V. K. Kanz,
J. T. Early,
期刊:
AIP Conference Proceedings
(AIP Available online 1904)
卷期:
Volume 702,
issue 1
页码: 367-377
ISSN:0094-243X
年代: 1904
DOI:10.1063/1.1721015
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
The new class of diode pumped alkali vapor lasers (DPALs) offers high efficiency cw laser beams at wavelengths which efficiently couple to photovoltaic (PV) cells: silicon cells at 895 nm (cesium), and GaAs cells at 795 nm (rubidium) and at 770 nm (potassium). DPAL electrical efficiencies of 25–30&percent; are projected, enabling PV cell efficiencies ∼40&percent; (Si) and ∼60&percent; (GaAs). Near‐diffraction‐limited DPAL device power scaling into the multi‐kilowatt regime from a single aperture is projected. The potential application to power beaming propulsion to raise satellites from LEO to Geo is discussed. © 2004 American Institute of Physics
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