Laser processes are often used in the production of solar panels. Top hat beam shapers are used to enhance quality, throughput and efficiency of various laser ablation and scribing processes used in solar panel production.
Laser processes are often used in the production of solar panels. Top hat beam shapers are used to enhance quality, throughput and efficiency of various laser ablation and scribing processes used in solar panel production.
In the past decade we all became more aware of the need for green sources of energy, such as solar and wind power, to replace polluting sources of energy such as fossil fuel and coal. One of the great hopes for this transition is the utilization of the sun’s radiation for production of electricity, aka. Solar power. The way to utilize solar power is through solar panels with photovoltaic cells. Top hat beam shapers have enabled a revolution in the way we produce solar panels and optimize the efficiency of the solar power collection process
A Top hat laser beam is a laser beam whose intensity profile is flat and uniform, with sharp edges where the energy drops rapidly to zero. The top hat beam shape can be a square, rectangle, line, circle or any other shape. The way we can transform a non-top-hat laser beam to a top hat beam profile is by using a top hat laser beam shaper which is a Diffractive Optical Element (DOE) designed to shape a gaussian, single mode laser beam into a top hat laser beam profile.
Top hat beam profiles are generally used for two main stages in the manufacturing of solar panels:
Design and Manufacture of Diffractive Optical Elements for high power lasers
DESIGN & MANUFACTURE OF DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS
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