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I obtained my PhD degree in Physics Engineering from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa in December 2017. I did my PhD project Advances in solar-pumped laser efficiency and brightness in the Laser Technology laboratory of CEFITEC on the framework of the PhD studentship grant SFRH/BD/90410/2012 from FCT. I continued to work with this group without funding until May 2019, when I signed a Junior Researcher contract (CEECIND/03081/2017) for six years (Ongoing) through FCT funding for the 1st edition of the competitive Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus. I embarked on the solar laser field even before starting my PhD and since then, I’ve been contributing to the development of innovative solar laser schemes, whose advances resulted in a total of 71 journal articles, some of which have gained international recognition. I’ve participated actively in ten projects financed by SFERA Horizon 2020 in PROMES-CNRS solar facilities and I oversaw an exploratory project EXPL/FIS-OTI/0332/2021 financed by FCT, which ended in January of this year. I have also acted as an ad hoc reviewer for nineteen scientific journals, and I am currently guest editor of a topical collection in Discover Energy (Springer-Nature). In 2020, our research team has signed a contract with Springer-Nature to write a book on Solar-Pumped Lasers, of which I’m co-author. This book has been released in 2023, containing two chapters of which I’m the first author.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Joana Isabel Lázaro Almeida

Citation names

  • Almeida, Joana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F51A-E25B-2A82
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5890-7623

Addresses

  • Centre of Physics and Technological Research (CEFITEC). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516, Caparica, Almada, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Physical Sciences - Optics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/12
Concluded
 Doctoral Programme in Physics Engineering (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Advances in solar-pumped laser efficiency and brightness" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Unanimously Approved
2010/10
Concluded
 Integrated Master in Biomedical Engineering (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Construção de uma matriz de Díodos Emissores de Luz acoplada a um concentrador para fototerapia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15/20
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/05/01 - Current Researcher under the contract CEECIND/03081/2017 (Fundação para Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Física e Investigação Tecnológica, Portugal
2017/07 - 2019/04 Researcher (without contract) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Física e Investigação Tecnológica, Portugal
2013/06 - 2017/06 PhD student in Physics Engineering within the fellowship grant SFRH/BD/90410/2012 (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Física e Investigação Tecnológica, Portugal
2012/11 - 2015/06 Team member of the project PTDC/FIS/122420/2010 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Física e Investigação Tecnológica, Portugal
2010/11 - 2012/11 Researcher within the project PTDC/FIS/103599/2008 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Física e Investigação Tecnológica, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/01/17 - 2024/01/07 Production of seven-beam Ce:Nd:YAG solar laser in TEM00-mode regime
EXPL/FIS-OTI/0332/2021
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Ongoing
2013 - 2017 Ph.D. fellowship grant SFRH/BD/90410/2012
SFRH/BD/90410/2012
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P.
2010 - 2012 Research Fellowship
PTDC/FIS/103599/2008
Research Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/05 - Current Junior Researcher - Contract CEECIND/03081/2017
CEECIND/03081/2017
Post-doc Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P.

Other

Designation Funders
2023/01 - 2023/09 New breakthroughs in Ce:Nd:YAG solar laser
Grant Agreement No. 823802
Breakthroughs
Researcher
Laboratoire Procédés Matériaux et Énergie Solaire, France
Concluded
2022/01 - 2022/09 Ce:Nd:YAG multi-beam solar laser
Grant Agreement No. 823802
Ce Nd YAG
Researcher
Laboratoire Procédés Matériaux et Énergie Solaire, France
Concluded
2020/01 - 2020/09 Efficient fundamental mode multi-beam solar laser emissions
Grant Agreement No. 823802
MULTI-BEAM-LASER
Researcher
Laboratoire Procédés Matériaux et Énergie Solaire, France
Concluded
2019/01 - 2019/09 Novel solar lasers based on Nd:Ce:YAG, Cr:Nd:YAG and Alexandrite media
Grant Agreement No. 823802
NOVEL-SOL-LASER
Researcher
Laboratoire Procédés Matériaux et Énergie Solaire, France
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Research Infrastructures and E-Infrastructures
Concluded
2017/01 - 2017/09 Visible solar-pumped laser
Grant Agreement No. 312643
P1701190231 SOLVISIBLE
PhD Student Fellow
Laboratoire Procédés Matériaux et Énergie Solaire, France
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Research Infrastructures and E-Infrastructures
Concluded
2016/01 - 2016/09 Breakthrough in TEM00 solar laser efficiency in PROMES-CNRS
Grant Agreement No. 312643
P1602010181 Bright-TEM00-Laser
PhD Student Fellow
Laboratoire Procédés Matériaux et Énergie Solaire, France
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Research Infrastructures and E-Infrastructures
Concluded
2015/01 - 2015/09 10W Continuous-Wave TEM00 Mode Solar Laser Emission in PROMES-CNRS
Grant Agreement No. 312643
P1502270118 10W TEM00 LASER
PhD Student Fellow
Laboratoire Procédés Matériaux et Énergie Solaire, France
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Research Infrastructures and E-Infrastructures
Concluded
2014/01 - 2014/09 Record-breaking production of both 5 W TEM00 and 50 W multimode solar laser radiation
Grant Agreement No. 312643
P1404090033 TEM00-MULTI-LASER
PhD Student Fellow
Laboratoire Procédés Matériaux et Énergie Solaire, France
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Research Infrastructures and E-Infrastructures
Concluded
2012/01 - 2012/09 Highly efficient solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser oscillator and Cr:Nd:YAG solar laser amplifier in CNRS
Grant Agreement No. 228296
P12030800040254 Laser-Osci-Amp
Research Fellow
Laboratoire Procédés Matériaux et Énergie Solaire, France
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Research Infrastructures and E-Infrastructures
Concluded
2011/01 - 2011/09 80W solar-pumped Cr:Nd:YAG laser with excellent beam profile in CNRS
Grant Agreement No. 228296
P11030100000127 SPLEB
Research Fellow
Laboratoire Procédés Matériaux et Énergie Solaire, France
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Research Infrastructures and E-Infrastructures
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Liang, Dawei; Almeida, Joana; Vistas, Cláudia; Tibúrcio, Bruno; Garcia, Dário. Solar-Pumped Lasers. Springer International Publishing. 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-24785-9
Book chapter
  1. Almeida, Joana; Liang, Dawei. "Multimode Solar-Pumped Lasers". In Green Energy and Technology, 207-250. Springer International Publishing, 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-24785-9_6
  2. Almeida, Joana. "Brief History of Solar-Pumped Lasers". In Green Energy and Technology, 1-23. Springer International Publishing, 2023.
    10.1007/978-3-031-24785-9_1
Conference paper
  1. Joana Almeida; Dawei Liang; Cláudia R. Vistas; Emmanuel Guillot. "56 W cw Nd YAG solar laser by a heliostat - parabolic mirror system". 2015.
  2. Vistas, C.R.; Liang, D.; Almeida, J.. "Renewable forsterite production by a solar furnace". 2015.
  3. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82). "Design of high-brightness TEM00-mode solar-pumped laser for renewable material processing". 2014.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2063441
  4. Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3). "High-power high-brightness solar laser approach for renewable Mg recovery from MgO". 2014.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2063442
  5. Joana Almeida; Dawei Liang; D. Garcia. "Comparative study of Nd YAG solar laser performance in end-pumping and side-pumping configurations". 2013.
  6. Dário Garcia (651F-CA21-FBF8); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82). "Core-doped Nd:YAG disk solar laser uniformly pumped by six Fresnel lenses". 2013.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2030434
  7. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dário Garcia (651F-CA21-FBF8). "Comparative study of Cr:Nd:YAG and Nd:YAG solar laser performances". 2013.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2027673
  8. Gonçalo Tomás; Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82). "Side-pumping Nd:YAG solar laser by six Fresnel lenses". 2013.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2026082
  9. Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3). "Efficient solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser by a double-stage light-guide/V-groove cavity". 2011.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1117/12.892242
  10. Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3). "Construction of an array of LEDs coupled to a concentrator for phototherapy". 2011.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885923
  11. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82). "High-efficiency solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser with excellent beam profile". 2011.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1364/CLEO_AT.2011.JWA45
  12. Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Liang, Dawei. "Enhancing solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser output performances by light guides and a V-groove cavity". 2011.
    http://doi.org/10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942469
Journal article
  1. Liang, Dawei; Almeida, Joana; Catela, Miguel; Costa, Hugo; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Guillot, Emmanuel; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Lowest threshold solar-pumped Ce:Nd:YAG laser with 2.06% solar-to-TEM00 mode laser conversion efficiency". Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 270 (2024): 112817. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2024.112817.
    10.1016/j.solmat.2024.112817
  2. Costa, Hugo; Liang, Dawei; Almeida, Joana; Catela, Miguel; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Seven-grooved-Ce:Nd:YAG-rod solar laser pumping approach with 34.5 W/m2 TEM00-mode collection efficiency". Journal of Photonics for Energy 13 04 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.13.048001.
    10.1117/1.jpe.13.048001
  3. Almeida, Joana; Liang, Dawei; Catela, Miguel; Costa, Hugo; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Guillot, Emmanuel; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Solar-pumped dual-rod Ce:Nd:YAG laser with 58 W continuous-wave output power and 5.1° tracking error compensation width". Optics Express 31 24 (2023): 40041. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oe.507258.
    10.1364/oe.507258
  4. Garcia, Dário; Liang, Dawei; Almeida, Joana; Catela, Miguel; Costa, Hugo; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Guillot, Emmanuel; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Efficient Production of Doughnut-Shaped Ce:Nd:YAG Solar Laser Beam". Sustainability 15 18 (2023): 13761. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su151813761.
    10.3390/su151813761
  5. Catela, Miguel; Liang, Dawei; Almeida, Joana; Costa, Hugo; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Guillot, Emmanuel; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Stable Emissions from a Four-Rod Nd:YAG Solar Laser with ±0.5° Tracking Error Compensation Capacity". Photonics 10 9 (2023): 1047. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/photonics10091047.
    10.3390/photonics10091047
  6. Vistas, Cláudia R.; Liang, Dawei; Costa, Hugo; Catela, Miguel; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Almeida, Joana. "High Brightness Ce:Nd:YAG Solar Laser Pumping Approach with 22.9 W/m2 TEM00-Mode Collection Efficiency". Energies 16 13 (2023): 5143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16135143.
    10.3390/en16135143
  7. Garcia, Dário; Liang, Dawei; Almeida, Joana; Catela, Miguel; Costa, Hugo; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Guillot, Emmanuel; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Lowest-threshold solar laser operation under cloudy sky condition". Renewable Energy 210 (2023): 127-133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.03.124.
    10.1016/j.renene.2023.03.124
  8. Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Liang, Dawei; Almeida, Joana; Garcia, Dário; Catela, Miguel; Costa, Hugo; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Fresnel Lens Solar-Pumped Laser with Four Rods and Beam Merging Technique for Uniform and Stable Emission under Tracking Error Influence". Energies 16 12 (2023): 4815. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en16124815.
    10.3390/en16124815
  9. Cláudia R. Vistas; Dawei Liang; Miguel Catela; Hugo Costa; Dário Machado Garcia; Bruno D. Tibúrcio; Joana Almeida. "Fresnel Lens Solar Pumping for Uniform and Stable Emission of Six Sustainable Laser Beams under Non-Continuous Solar Tracking". Sustainability (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/10/8218.
    10.3390/su15108218
  10. Hugo Costa; Dawei Liang; Joana Almeida; Miguel Catela; Dário Machado Garcia; Bruno D. Tibúrcio; Cláudia R. Vistas. "Seven-Grooved-Rod, Side-Pumping Concept for Highly Efficient TEM00-Mode Solar Laser Emission through Fresnel Lenses". Photonics (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/10/6/620.
    10.3390/photonics10060620
  11. Catela, Miguel; Liang, Dawei; Vistas, Cláudia R.; Costa, Hugo; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Almeida, Joana. "Solar laser pumping approach for both simultaneous and stable multibeam operation under tracking error condition". Journal of Photonics for Energy 13 02 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.13.028001.
    10.1117/1.jpe.13.028001
  12. Catela, Miguel; Liang, Dawei; Vistas, Cláudia R.; Garcia, Dário; Costa, Hugo; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Almeida, Joana. "Stable emission of solar laser power under non-continuous solar tracking conditions". Applied Optics 62 10 (2023): 2697. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.485158.
    10.1364/ao.485158
  13. Costa, Hugo; Liang, Dawei; Almeida, Joana; Catela, Miguel; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Seven-Rod Pumping Concept for Highly Stable Solar Laser Emission". Energies 15 23 (2022): 9140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15239140.
    10.3390/en15239140
  14. Costa, Hugo; Almeida, Joana; Liang, Dawei; Garcia, Dário; Catela, Miguel; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Multirod approach to enhance solar-to-laser conversion efficiency in the Odeillo solar furnace". Journal of Photonics for Energy 12 04 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.12.048001.
    10.1117/1.jpe.12.048001
  15. Catela, Miguel; Liang, Dawei; Vistas, Cláudia R.; Garcia, Dário; Costa, Hugo; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Almeida, Joana. "Highly Efficient Four-Rod Pumping Approach for the Most Stable Solar Laser Emission". Micromachines 13 10 (2022): 1670. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi13101670.
    10.3390/mi13101670
  16. Liang, Dawei; Vistas, Cláudia R.; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Catela, Miguel; Costa, Hugo; Guillot, Emmanuel; Almeida, Joana. "Most efficient simultaneous solar laser emissions from three Ce:Nd:YAG rods within a single pump cavity". Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 246 (2022): 111921. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2022.111921.
    10.1016/j.solmat.2022.111921
  17. Tibúrcio, B.D.; Liang, D.; Almeida, J.; Garcia, D.; Catela, M.; Costa, H.; Vistas, C.R.. "Tracking error compensation capacity measurement of a dual-rod side-pumping solar laser". Renewable Energy 195 (2022): 1253-1261. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.06.114.
    10.1016/j.renene.2022.06.114
  18. Garcia, Dário; Liang, Dawei; Vistas, Cláudia R.; Costa, Hugo; Catela, Miguel; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Almeida, Joana. "Ce:Nd:YAG Solar Laser with 4.5% Solar-to-Laser Conversion Efficiency". Energies 15 14 (2022): 5292. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15145292.
    10.3390/en15145292
  19. Tibúrcio, B. D.; Liang, D.; Almeida, J.; Garcia, D.; Catela, M.; Costa, H.; Vistas, C. R.. "Enhancing TEM00-Mode Solar Laser With Beam Merging and Ring-Array Concentrator". Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 144 6 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4054666.
    10.1115/1.4054666
  20. Almeida, Joana; Liang, Dawei; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Costa, Hugo; Catela, Miguel; Guillot, Emmanuel; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "40 W Continuous Wave Ce:Nd:YAG Solar Laser through a Fused Silica Light Guide". Energies 15 11 (2022): 3998. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15113998.
    10.3390/en15113998
  21. Vistas, Cláudia R.; Liang, Dawei; Garcia, Dário; Catela, Miguel; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Costa, Hugo; Guillot, Emmanuel; Almeida, Joana. "Uniform and Non-Uniform Pumping Effect on Ce:Nd:YAG Side-Pumped Solar Laser Output Performance". Energies 15 10 (2022): 3577. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15103577.
    10.3390/en15103577
  22. Garcia, Dário; Liang, Dawei; Almeida, Joana; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Costa, Hugo; Catela, Miguel; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Elliptical-Shaped Fresnel Lens Design through Gaussian Source Distribution". Energies 15 2 (2022): 668. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en15020668.
    10.3390/en15020668
  23. Catela, Miguel; Liang, Dawei; Vistas, Cláudia R.; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Costa, Hugo; Almeida, Joana. "Doughnut-Shaped and Top Hat Solar Laser Beams Numerical Analysis". Energies 14 21 (2021): 7102. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14217102.
    10.3390/en14217102
  24. Tibúrcio, B. D.; Liang, D.; Almeida, J.; Garcia, D.; Catela, M.; Costa, H.; Vistas, C. R.. "Improving side-pumped solar lasers using ring-array concentrators". International Journal of Sustainable Energy 41 7 (2021): 868-888. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786451.2021.1987435.
    10.1080/14786451.2021.1987435
  25. Costa, Hugo; Almeida, Joana; Liang, Dawei; Catela, Miguel; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Zigzag Multirod Laser Beam Merging Approach for Brighter TEM00-Mode Solar Laser Emission from a Megawatt Solar Furnace". Energies 14 17 (2021): 5437. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14175437.
    10.3390/en14175437
  26. Catela, Miguel; Liang, Dawei; Vistas, Cláudia R.; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Costa, Hugo; Almeida, Joana. "Renovating electrical power-to-TEM00 mode laser power conversion efficiency with four-lamp/four-rod pumping scheme". Journal of Modern Optics 68 17 (2021): 895-905. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2021.1904155.
    10.1080/09500340.2021.1904155
  27. Liang, Dawei; Almeida, Joana; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Catela, Miguel; Garcia, Dário; Costa, Hugo; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Seven-Rod Pumping Approach for the Most Efficient Production of TEM00 Mode Solar Laser Power by a Fresnel Lens". Journal of Solar Energy Engineering 143 6 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4051223.
    10.1115/1.4051223
  28. Garcia, Dário; Liang, Dawei; Almeida, Joana; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Costa, Hugo; Catela, Miguel; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Analytical and numerical analysis of a ring-array concentrator". International Journal of Energy Research 45 10 (2021): 15110-15123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/er.6787.
    10.1002/er.6787
  29. Hugo Costa; Joana Almeida; Dawei Liang; Bruno D. Tibúrcio; Dario Garcia; Miguel Catela; Claudia R. Vistas. "Quasi-Gaussian Multibeam Solar Laser Station for a Megawatt Solar Furnace". Journal of Solar Energy Research Updates 8 (2021): 11-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.31875/2410-2199.2021.08.02.
    10.31875/2410-2199.2021.08.02
  30. Vistas, Cláudia R.; Liang, Dawei; Almeida, Joana; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Garcia, Dário; Catela, Miguel; Costa, Hugo; Guillot, Emmanuel. "Ce:Nd:YAG side-pumped solar laser". Journal of Photonics for Energy 11 01 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.11.018001.
    10.1117/1.jpe.11.018001
  31. Catela, Miguel; Liang, Dawei; Vistas, Cláudia R.; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Costa, Hugo; Almeida, Joana. "Six-rod/six-beam concept for revitalizing TEM00 mode lamp-pumped lasers". Optical Engineering 59 12 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.oe.59.12.126108.
    10.1117/1.oe.59.12.126108
  32. Vistas, C. R.; Liang, D.; Garcia, D.; Tibúrcio, B. D.; Almeida, J.. "32 W TEM00-Mode Side-Pumped Solar Laser Design". Applied Solar Energy 56 6 (2020): 449-457. http://dx.doi.org/10.3103/s0003701x20060122.
    10.3103/s0003701x20060122
  33. Almeida, Joana; Liang, Dawei; Costa, Hugo; Garcia, Dário; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Catela, Miguel; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Seven-rod pumping concept for simultaneous emission of seven TEM00-mode solar laser beams". Journal of Photonics for Energy 10 03 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.10.038001.
    10.1117/1.jpe.10.038001
  34. Costa, Hugo; Almeida, Joana; Liang, Dawei; Garcia, Dário; Catela, Miguel; Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Vistas, Cláudia R.. "Design of a multibeam solar laser station for a megawatt solar furnace". Optical Engineering 59 08 (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.oe.59.8.086103.
    10.1117/1.oe.59.8.086103
  35. Cláudia R. Vistas; Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Dário Garcia (651F-CA21-FBF8); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Guillot, Emmanuel. "Ce:Nd:YAG continuous-wave solar-pumped laser". Optik 207 (2020): 163795. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2019.163795.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2019.163795
  36. Tibúrcio, B.D.; Liang, D.; Almeida, J.; Garcia, D.; Vistas, C.R.; Morais, P.J.. "Highly efficient side-pumped solar laser with enhanced tracking-error compensation capacity". Optics Communications 460 (2020): 125156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2019.125156.
    10.1016/j.optcom.2019.125156
  37. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana; Dário Garcia (651F-CA21-FBF8); Bruno D. Tibúrcio; Emmanuel Guillot; Cláudia R. Vistas. "Simultaneous solar laser emissions from three Nd:YAG rods within a single pump cavity". Solar Energy 199 (2020): 192-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2020.02.027.
    Published • 10.1016/j.solener.2020.02.027
  38. Dário Garcia (651F-CA21-FBF8); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Bruno D. Tibúrcio; Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Cláudia R. Vistas. "A three-dimensional ring-array concentrator solar furnace". Solar Energy 193 (2019): 915-928. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.10.016.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.10.016
  39. Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dário Garcia (651F-CA21-FBF8); Cláudia R. Vistas. "Dual-rod pumping approach for tracking error compensation in solar-pumped lasers". Journal of Photonics for Energy 9 02 (2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.9.028001.
    Published • 10.1117/1.jpe.9.028001
  40. Miguel Catela (521F-B6E7-158F); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Cláudia R. Vistas. "Homogenization and penetration effects of 1064 nm Nd:YAG solar laser and concentrated solar radiations on ex vivo chicken breast samples". Journal of Laser Applications 31 2 (2019): 022010. https://doi.org/10.2351/1.5088051.
    Published • 10.2351/1.5088051
  41. Bruno D. Tibúrcio; Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dário Garcia (651F-CA21-FBF8); Cláudia R. Vistas. "Dual-rod pumping concept for TEM00-mode solar lasers". Applied Optics 58 13 (2019): 3438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.58.003438.
    Published • http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.58.003438
  42. Cláudia R. Vistas; Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Bruno D. Tibúrcio; Dário Garcia (651F-CA21-FBF8). "A doughnut-shaped Nd:YAG solar laser beam with 4.5 W/m2 collection efficiency". Solar Energy 182 (2019): 42-47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2019.02.030.
    Published • 10.1016/j.solener.2019.02.030
  43. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Cláudia R. Vistas; Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Bruno D. Tibúrcio; Dário Garcia (651F-CA21-FBF8). "Side-pumped continuous-wave Nd:YAG solar laser with 5.4% slope efficiency". Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 192 (2019): 147-153. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2018.12.029.
    Published • 10.1016/j.solmat.2018.12.029
  44. Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Tibúrcio, Bruno D.; Dário Garcia (651F-CA21-FBF8); Cláudia R. Vistas. "Numerical modeling of a four-rod pumping scheme for improving TEM00-mode solar laser performance". Journal of Photonics for Energy 9 01 (2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.9.018001.
    Published • 10.1117/1.jpe.9.018001
  45. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Cláudia R. Vistas; Bruno D. Tibúrcio; Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82). "Solar-pumped Cr:Nd:YAG ceramic laser with 6.7% slope efficiency". Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 185 (2018): 75-79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2018.05.020.
    Published • 10.1016/j.solmat.2018.05.020
  46. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Cláudia R. Vistas. "A doughnut-shaped Nd:YAG solar laser beam". Optics & Laser Technology 106 (2018): 1-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optlastec.2018.03.029.
    Published • 10.1016/j.optlastec.2018.03.029
  47. Rodrigo Matos (0A11-6484-A7D3); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Bruno D. Tibúrcio; Cláudia R. Vistas. "High-efficiency solar laser pumping by a modified ring-array concentrator". Optics Communications 420 (2018): 6-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2018.03.027.
    Published • 10.1016/j.optcom.2018.03.027
  48. Guan, Zhe; Zhao, Changming; Zhang, Haiyang; Li, Jinhua; He, Dongbing; Almeida, Joana; Vistas, Cláudia R.; Liang, Dawei. "5.04% system slope efficiency solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser by a heliostat–parabolic mirror system". Journal of Photonics for Energy 8 02 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.8.027501.
    10.1117/1.jpe.8.027501
  49. Bruno D. Tibúrcio; Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Rodrigo Matos (0A11-6484-A7D3); Cláudia R. Vistas. "Improving solar-pumped laser efficiency by a ring-array concentrator". Journal of Photonics for Energy 8 01 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.jpe.8.018002.
    Published • 10.1117/1.jpe.8.018002
  50. Rochdi Bouadjemine; Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Said Mehellou; Cláudia R. Vistas; Abdelhamid Kellou; Emmanuel Guillot. "Stable TEM 00 -mode Nd:YAG solar laser operation by a twisted fused silica light-guide". Optics & Laser Technology 97 (2017): 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optlastec.2017.06.003.
    Published • 10.1016/j.optlastec.2017.06.003
  51. Said Mehellou; Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Rochdi Bouadjemine; Cláudia R. Vistas; Emmanuel Guillot; Ferhat Rehouma. "Stable solar-pumped TEM00-mode 1064 nm laser emission by a monolithic fused silica twisted light guide". Solar Energy 155 (2017): 1059-1071. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2017.07.048.
    Published • 10.1016/j.solener.2017.07.048
  52. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Cláudia R. Vistas; Emmanuel Guillot. "Solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser with 31.5 W/m2 multimode and 7.9 W/m2 TEM00-mode collection efficiencies". Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 159 (2017): 435-439. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2016.09.048.
    Published • 10.1016/j.solmat.2016.09.048
  53. Mariana Oliveira; Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Cláudia R. Vistas; Filipe Gonçalves; Rodrigo Martins (8610-B29C-1FA8). "A path to renewable Mg reduction from MgO by a continuous-wave Cr:Nd:YAG ceramic solar laser". Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 155 (2016): 430-435. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2016.06.046.
    Published • 10.1016/j.solmat.2016.06.046
  54. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Cláudia R. Vistas. "25 W/m2 collection efficiency solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser by a heliostat-parabolic mirror system". Applied Optics 55 27 (2016): 7712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.55.007712.
    Published • 10.1364/ao.55.007712
  55. Cláudia R. Vistas; Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Emmanuel Guillot. "TEM00 mode Nd:YAG solar laser by side-pumping a grooved rod". Optics Communications 366 (2016): 50-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2015.12.038.
    Published • 10.1016/j.optcom.2015.12.038
  56. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Cláudia R. Vistas; Mariana Oliveira; Filipe Gonçalves; Emmanuel Guillot. "High-efficiency solar-pumped TEM 00 -mode Nd:YAG laser". Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 145 (2016): 397-402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2015.11.001.
    Published • 10.1016/j.solmat.2015.11.001
  57. Cláudia R. Vistas; Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82). "Solar-pumped TEM00 mode laser simple design with a grooved Nd:YAG rod". Solar Energy 122 (2015): 1325-1333. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2015.10.049.
    Published • 10.1016/j.solener.2015.10.049
  58. Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Cláudia R. Vistas; Rochdi Bouadjemine; Emmanuel Guillot. "5.5 W continuous-wave TEM00-mode Nd:YAG solar laser by a light-guide/2V-shaped pump cavity". Applied Physics B 121 4 (2015): 473-482. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00340-015-6257-z.
    Published • 10.1007/s00340-015-6257-z
  59. Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Cláudia R. Vistas; Emmanuel Guillot. "Highly efficient end-side-pumped Nd:YAG solar laser by a heliostat–parabolic mirror system". Applied Optics 54 8 (2015): 1970. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.54.001970.
    Published • 10.1364/ao.54.001970
  60. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Cláudia R. Vistas; Emmanuel Guillot. "Solar-pumped TEM00 mode Nd:YAG laser by a heliostat—Parabolic mirror system". Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 134 (2015): 305-308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2014.12.015.
    Published • 10.1016/j.solmat.2014.12.015
  61. Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3). "Design of TEM 00 mode side-pumped Nd:YAG solar laser". Optics Communications 333 (2014): 219-225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2014.07.091.
    Published • 10.1016/j.optcom.2014.07.091
  62. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Cláudia R. Vistas. "Scalable pumping approach for extracting the maximum TEM00 solar laser power". Applied Optics 53 30 (2014): 7129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.53.007129.
    Published • 10.1364/ao.53.007129
  63. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dário Garcia (651F-CA21-FBF8). "Design of a high-power, high-brightness Nd:YAG solar laser". Applied Optics 53 9 (2014): 1856. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.53.001856.
    Published • 10.1364/ao.53.001856
  64. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82). "Solar-Pumped TEM_00 Mode Nd:YAG laser". Optics Express 21 21 (2013): 25107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oe.21.025107.
    Published • 10.1364/oe.21.025107
  65. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82). "Multi-Fresnel lenses pumping approach for improving high-power Nd:YAG solar laser beam quality". Applied Optics 52 21 (2013): 5123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.52.005123.
    Published • 10.1364/ao.52.005123
  66. Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Emmanuel Guillot; Yasser Abdel-Hadi. "A 40 W cw Nd:YAG solar laser pumped through a heliostat: a parabolic mirror system". Laser Physics 23 6 (2013): 065801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1054-660x/23/6/065801.
    Published • 10.1088/1054-660x/23/6/065801
  67. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Emmanuel Guillot. "Side-pumped continuous-wave Cr:Nd:YAG ceramic solar laser". Applied Physics B 111 2 (2013): 305-311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00340-013-5334-4.
    Published • 10.1007/s00340-013-5334-4
  68. Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3). "Design of a high brightness solar-pumped laser by light-guides". Optics Communications 285 24 (2012): 5327-5333. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2012.07.099.
    10.1016/j.optcom.2012.07.099
  69. Almeida, Joana (F51A-E25B-2A82); Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Emmanuel Guillot. "Improvement in solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser beam brightness". Optics & Laser Technology 44 7 (2012): 2115-2119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optlastec.2012.03.017.
    Published • 10.1016/j.optlastec.2012.03.017
  70. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Joana Almeida (F51A-E25B-2A82). "Design of ultrahigh brightness solar-pumped disk laser". Applied Optics 51 26 (2012): 6382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ao.51.006382.
    Published • 10.1364/ao.51.006382
  71. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana. "Highly efficient solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser". Optics Express 19 27 (2011): 26399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oe.19.026399.
    Published • 10.1364/oe.19.026399
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Advances in solar-pumped laser efficiency and brightness". PhD, 2017. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/6e2de0ba-1c83-41f2-8344-44395073d622.
  2. Almeida, Joana. "Construção de uma matriz de Díodos Emissores de Luz acoplada a um concentrador para fototerapia". Master, 2010. https://novaresearch.unl.pt/en/publications/0e1880ae-d7bb-4ded-9246-4f523a30d769.

Other

Other output
  1. Book publishing contract with Springer Nature (Contract No. 108086): "Solar- Pumped Lasers". 2020. Dawei Liang (B11F-6A71-09F3); Almeida, Joana; Cláudia R. Vistas; Bruno D. Tibúrcio; Dário Garcia (651F-CA21-FBF8).
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/09 Breakthroughs in Solar-Powered Lasers XVII Iberian Joint Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics (IBER 2023)
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/09 Uniform and Stable TEM00 mode Multibeam Solar Laser Approach The 2nd International Conference on Green Energy Conversion System (GECS 2023)
(Djerba, Tunisia)
2023/06 Solar Laser Operation under Tracking Error Condition 5th Doctoral Congress in Engineering (DCE 2023)
(Porto, Portugal)
2022/09 Production of seven-beam Ce:Nd:YAG solar laser in TEM00-mode regime NOVA Sustainability Week
2020/11 Novel Concepts in Solar Pumped Lasers Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal 2020 (Portugal)
2019/07/10 Recent advances in renewable solar-pumped lasers Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal 2019 (Portugal)
2015/04/27 Progress in solar-pumped laser efficiency by heliostat-parabolic mirror system IZEST Conference – Workshop on Laser solutions for Orbital Space Debris (Paris, França)
2015/04/27 Advances in high-efficiency TEM00-mode solar-pumped laser IZEST Conference – Workshop on Laser solutions for Orbital Space Debris (Paris, França)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/10 - Current Master Project: Feasibility study of the first blackbody-pumped Nd:YAG solar laser
Co-supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Física e Investigação Tecnológica, Portugal
2022/01 - Current PhD Project: Multibeam solar laser station with a Fresnel lens for the most efficient and cost-effective TEM00-mode laser power production
Co-supervisor
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Física e Investigação Tecnológica, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/09/26 Solar concentrators and solar-pumped lasers
Thesis Member
 Dário Garcia (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/10/25 Solar-Pumped Laser Technology
Thesis Member
 Bruno D. Tibúrcio (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/03 - 2024/03 Nanomaterials MDPI
2024/03 - 2024/03 Renewable Energy Elsevier
2024/02 - 2024/02 Journal of Photonics for Energy SPIE
2023/09 - 2023/09 Applied Physics B Springer
2023/09 - 2023/09 Photonics MDPI
2023/06 - 2023/06 Photonics MDPI
2023/01 - 2023/06 Optik Elsevier
2023/05 - 2023/05 Optics & Laser Tecnology Elsevier
2023/04 - 2023/05 Optik Elsevier
2023/03 - 2023/03 Applied Physics B Springer
2023/03 - 2023/03 Information MDPI
2023/03 - 2023/03 Optik Elsevier
2023/01 - 2023/01 Optics & Laser Technology Elsevier
2022/12 - 2022/12 Optik Elsevier
2022/11 - 2022/11 Optik Elsevier
2022/11 - 2022/11 Energies MDPI
2022/11 - 2022/11 Energies MDPI
2022/09 - 2022/11 Applied Surface Science Advances Elsevier
2022/07 - 2022/07 Energies MDPI
2022/05 - 2022/05 Energies MDPI
2022/03 - 2022/05 Results in Optics Elsevier
2022/04 - 2022/04 Optics & Laser Technology Elsevier
2022/04 - 2022/04 Optik Elsevier
2022/02 - 2022/02 Photonics MDPI
2022/01 - 2022/01 Optics Communications Elsevier
2021/10 - 2021/10 Journal of Cleaner Production Elsevier
2020/06 - 2020/06 Journal of Photonics for Energy SPIE
2020/05 - 2020/06 Optics & Laser Technology Elsevier
2019/10 - 2019/12 Optik Elsevier
2019/10 - 2019/10 Optics Communications Elsevier
2019/07 - 2019/08 Applied Surface Science Elsevier
2019/03 - 2019/05 Journal of Modern Optics Taylor & Francis
2019/02 - 2019/05 Optics & Laser Technology Elsevier
2017/09 - 2018/03 Optics & Laser Technology Elsevier
2017/10 - 2017/11 Photonics Technology Letters IEEE Photonics Society
2017/08 - 2017/10 Renewable Energy Elsevier
2017/07 - 2017/07 Optics Letters OSA
2015/07 - 2015/08 Applied Optics OSA
2014/11 - 2014/11 Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells Elsevier
2013/12 - 2014/01 Journal of Photonics for Energy SPIE

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/03 - Current 6th International Conference on Power and Energy Technology (ICPET 2024)
2023/03 - 2023/07 5th International Conference on Power and Energy Technology (ICPET 2023)

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2021/03 - 2021/03 90 segundos de Ciência (Antena 1) Grupo de investigação do CEFITEC desenvolve laser bombeado a luz solar
2018/10/30 - 2018/10/30 SIC Notícias - Media Report of our Solar Laser Laboratory in CEFITEC, DF, FCT-UNL. Prémio REN: FCT Solar LASER

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/01 - Current Discover Energy Springer
2022/10 - 2023/06 Guest Editor of Energies Journal MDPI
Distinctions

Other distinction

2023 Springer-Nature BOOK: Solar-Pumped Lasers With Examples of Numerical Analysis of Solid-State Lasers
2023 Research article: "Solar laser pumping approach for both simultaneous and stable multibeam operation under trackingerror condition" featured in Journal of Photonics for Energy
2022 NEWS BREAKS: "Solar pumping converts broadband sunlight into efficient laser light" - LASER FOCUS WORLD
2022 Research article: "Ce:Nd:YAG Solar Laser with 4.5% Solar-to-Laser Conversion Efficiency" featured in the Cover of Energies
2022 Research article: "Multirod approach to enhance solar-to-laser conversion efficiency in the Odeillo solar furnace" featured in the Cover of Journal of Photonics for Energy
2021 Research article: "Ce:Nd:YAG side-pumped solar laser" featured in Journal of Photonics for Energy
2020 Research article: "Seven-rod pumping concept for simultaneous emission of seven TEM00-mode solar laser beams" featured in the cover of Journal of Photonics for Energy
2016 Key Scientific Article contributing to excellence in energy research: "Most efficient continuous-wave 1064nm solar laser emission within a laboratory" - Renewable Energy Global Innovations
2014 Key Scientific Article contributing to the excellence in energy research: "Side-pumped continuous-wave Cr:Nd:YAG ceramic solar laser (2013)" - Renewable Energy Global Innovations
2013 Research article: "A 40 W cw Nd:YAG solar laser pumped through a heliostat: a parabolic mirror system" in Laser Physics Highlights (Novel Laser Materials and Lasers) of 2013
2013 NOVEL LASERS: Solarpumped Nd:YAG lasers getting brighter - Laser Focus World https://www.laserfocusworld.com/lasers-sources/article/16556902/novel-lasers-solarpumped-ndyag-lasers-getting-brighter
2012 Research article: "Design of ultra-high brightness solar-pumped disk laser (2012)" selected for inclusion in Spotlight on Optics, OSA journals
2012 Research article: "Improvement in solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser beam brightness" cited in CSP today - SFERA flushes out groundbreaking CSP research