وثيقة
Optical fibers for solar radiation transmission as an alternative scheme for solid-state laser pumping
وكيل مرتبط
Manaa, Hacene, مشرف الرسالة العلمية
تاريخ النشر
2019
اللغة
الأنجليزية
مكان المؤسسة
Sakhir, Bahrain
نوع الرسالة الجامعية
Thesis (Master)
الملخص الإنجليزي
ABSTRACT:
The solar-pumped solid-state laser is a device that uses the solar
radiation to pump its gain medium. Up to our knowledge, all the solar lasers
currently operating, are based on a single primary parabolic mirror that
focuses the solar radiation on the laser gain medium. This optical arrangement
constitutes a major inconvenience because, in one single beam, tens of
kilowatts of solar radiation are manipulated. Besides the hazards, the
heaviness of the instruments make them also hard to manipulate. To improve
pumping schemes of solar-pumped solid-state lasers, optical fiber bundles for
solar radiation transmission are proposed. With the flexible fiber optic bundle,
we could bring the solar radiation to pump a solid-state laser inside the
laboratory. We report an alternative for sun-light collection and transportation
where sun light is collected with small parabolic mirrors or lenses, and
concentrated on the ends of several optical fiber bundles that are placed at the
mirrors/lens foci. We report quantitative measurements on the solar energy
transmission and concentration scheme by using single core glass fiber, single
core plastic fiber and multi core plastic fiber of different lengths and fiber
numbers. In this project, one small mirror and several lenses of different focal
lengths and diameters were used for this investigation. The experiments
results show that the maximum optical power and efficiency is obtained by
1.5 m plastic optical cable of 15 multi cored of 7 fiber of 0.5 mm diameter
using parabolic mirror. The maximum optical power, when using lenses is
obtained from a 1.5 m optical cable of 20 single cored fiber of 1 mm in
diameter and lens of 4 cm diameter and +200 mm focal length. The result of
our simulation on Nd:YAG solar laser system shows output laser power
ranges from 20 mW to 65 mW by using a combination of many parabolic
mirrors/ lenses with 1.5 m fiber bundles of different core number and
diameter.
المجموعة
المعرف
https://digitalrepository.uob.edu.bh/id/5e2a5745-cf5d-44b8-bc6e-7cda35ff9aee