Design of a solar-pumped semiconductor laser
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 28402863
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1364/OPTICA.2.000056
- Title of journal
- Optica
- Article number
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- First page
- 56
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2334-2536
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper shows a route to practically achieving a semiconductor solar laser, a challenge which was first proposed in 1992 (DOI:10.1016/0030-4018(92)90633-3). We obtained a patent based on this work (GB1416421) and used the research as the basis of a Royal Society Research Grant, which was awarded (RG140684, 2015). This paper also led to an invited talk at SPIE Photonics West VECSELs conference in 2015 (DOI:10.1117/12.2079153). Finally, the research was picked up by the media and led to articles in the Times (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/satellite-mirrors-promise-to-give-space-lasers-their-day-in-the-sun-gnpxt5gx3gg), the Daily Mail and the Dundee Courier, as well as a few international news outlets.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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