Chip, Volume. 3, Issue 3, 100099(2024)
Remote electric powering by germanium photovoltaic conversion of an Erbium-fiber laser beam
The commercially available 4000-Watt continuous-wave (CW) Erbium-doped-fiber laser, emitting at the 1567-nm wavelength where the atmosphere has high transmission, provides an opportunity for harvesting electric power at remote “off the grid” locations using a multi-module photovoltaic (PV) “receiver” panel. This paper proposes a 32-element monocrystalline thick-layer Germanium PV panel for efficient harvesting of a collimated 1.13-m-diam beam. The 0.78-m2 PV panel is constructed from commercial Ge wafers. For incident CW laser-beam power in the 4000 to 10,000 W range, our thermal, electrical, and infrared simulations predict 660 to 1510 Watts of electrical output at the panel temperatures of 350 to 423 K.
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Richard Soref, Francesco De Leonardis, Oussama Moutanabbir, Gerard Daligou. Remote electric powering by germanium photovoltaic conversion of an Erbium-fiber laser beam[J]. Chip, 2024, 3(3): 100099
Category: Research Articles
Received: May. 8, 2024
Accepted: Jun. 3, 2024
Published Online: Nov. 12, 2024
The Author Email: Soref Richard (richard.soref@umb.edu)