Welcome to Alpine Project
ALPINE - Advanced Lasers for Photovoltaic INdustrial processing Enhancement
FIRST ALPINE MILESTONE: NKT Photonics have within ALPINE delivering prototypes of a 30 µm core PM active fiber for testing at Eolite, Multitel and the University of Parma. This is the first step to improve the bending tolerance of large mode area amplifying flexible fibers.
About the Project:
ALPINE aims to push forward the European research and development of fiber laser systems for the scribing of photovoltaic modules, joining together two exciting challenges: the fiber laser development for advanced industrial processing, on one side, and solar energy exploitation, on the other side.
The project consortium will focus on a new high brilliance and high beam quality laser based on photonic crystal fibers. The novel laser system will be designed to fit the requirements for scribing innovative and flexible thin-film solar cells based on CdTe and CIS or CIGS technologies. Read More...