Transformation of concentrated sunlight into laser radiation on small parabolic concentrators

The possibility of creation of effective lasers on small parabolic solar concentrators with the use of ceramic active elements of disk geometry was studied. Various variants of a design for solar lasers were considered. It is shown that the efficiency of transformation can reach the value of 35% for the considered schemes of solar laser. It was proposed to use solar lasers for large-scale synthesis of nanoparticles and nanostructures. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3643267]