Controlling optical ray in space: optical deflectors

Work of elements and systems of the solar power engineering is related with the redistribution in space and time and transformations of energy of sun radiations.     more...

Hot quanta from the cold water: liquid dye lasers

The active environment of dye laser includes the organic matter dissolved in a liquid solvent. The optical pumping of solution is executed with the help of other laser or pulsed lamp. Hereupon population inversion of active environment appears this creates at certain terms the emission of laser radiations.     more...

Perspectives of application of gas laser technologies in the solar power systems of production and transportation of energy

The gas laser was the first continuous-light laser. Gas lasers using many gases have been built and used for many purposes. The purpose of the article is the analysis of the possibility of application of gas laser technologies in the solar power systems of production and transportation of energy.     more...

Stimulated emission in semiconductor laser structures – a step to the new high effective coherent PV solar cells

Today’s semiconductor lasers radiate in a red and near infrared (IR) ranges of light-spectrum and have high energy effectiveness about 50%. The high levels of output power are attained, which allow replacing traditional lasers in a row of applications.     more...

Constructions and work of solid state laser structures pumped by optical radiations

In the solid state laser a solid crystalline material is used as the lasing medium, pumped usually by optical radiations. Solid state lasers should not be confused with semiconductor or diode lasers     more...

Advances in lasing mediums and laser radiation generation

Physical principles that lie in the basis of work of lasers can be used for creation of the high-effective photovoltaic modules of a new generation. In next articles the achievements in technologies of creation of laser environments and generation of laser radiations will be analyzed, and also possibility of the use of laser structures in the systems of the solar power engineering is considered     more...

Control of Laser Radiations in the Systems of Sun Power Engineering

The use of laser technologies provides to create optical concentrators and photovoltaic solar cells of the next generation with high energy effectiveness. In the next article it was shown how laser radiations propagate in natural and artificial materials and how the parameters of radiations (phase intensity, polarization) can be controlled and manipulated     more...

Laser Radiations in the Systems of Sun Power Engineering

Today's sun technologies of receipt of thermal and, especially, of electric energy ran into a large problem that will brake their subsequent introduction. This obstacle is low energy effectiveness of transformation of energy of sun radiation into electric energy and the high cost of elements and systems of the solar power engineering     more...

The Interaction of Solar and Optical Radiations with the Matter in the Descriptions of Quantum Mechanics

Experiments show that light has double nature. In some phenomena (interference, diffraction and polarization) the wave-like properties of light are observed, in the other phenomena (photo-electric effect, Compton’s effect, luminescence) – particle-like properties     more...

Propagation of Optical and Solar Radiations in the Descriptions of Geometrical Optics

For description of optical radiations in a geometrical optics the notions of optical ray and optical beam are used. Optical ray is a line, along which the energy of optical radiations spreads     more...