Wireless laser power supply to long-distance devices is drawing more and more interest in recent years. As power receivers, laser cells are adhered on these devices. Relatively high laser cell efficiency could be obtained under a monochromatic illumination. In order to study the most efficient laser illumination conditions to the laser cell, the efficiencies of circular and rectangular cells illuminated by laser with fundamental mode are compared. The simulations show that the cell efficiency increases slowly with the increase of the laser power, and decreases with the increase of the spot size. When the rectangular cell and the circular cell have the same area, and the diameter of the circular cell and that of the laser spot are equal, the efficiency of the circular cell is higher than the rectangular cell.

Date Published: 5 August 2015
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 9619, 2015 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optoelectronic Devices and Optical Signal Processing, 961904 (5 August 2015); doi: 10.1117/12.2193422

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9619:
2015 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optoelectronic Devices and Optical Signal Processing
Yi Dong; Chao Lu; Jian Wu; Zhaohui Li, Editor(s)