Analysis of the Influence of Atmospheric Turbulence on Laser Wireless Power Transmission

Guan Huang, Chao Geng, Chao Geng, Xinyang Li, Xinyang Li

2025

Abstract

Laser Wireless Power Transmission (LWPT) technology has significant applications in many fields, such as emergency rescue, remote power supply for aircraft, and space solar power stations. As the beam transmission distance increases, the effects of atmospheric turbulence become significant. However, this issue has not yet been specifically discussed. In this paper, theoretical analysis and numerical simulation experiments are carried out to study the effect of atmospheric turbulence on the performance of LWPT. The results show that the power transmission efficiency of LWPT is determined jointly by the mean and uniformity of the beam intensity. Under the influence of moderate atmospheric turbulence (with C2n of 8.6×10−16m−2/3), the maximum power of the photovoltaic array will be seriously affected (from 100% to less than 0.5%), and simply compensating for the tilt aberration will not make a significant difference. The conclusion of this paper shows the importance of adaptive optics (AO) systems in future long-range LWPT links.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Huang G., Geng C. and Li X. (2025). Analysis of the Influence of Atmospheric Turbulence on Laser Wireless Power Transmission. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS; ISBN 978-989-758-736-8, SciTePress, pages 41-48. DOI: 10.5220/0013167500003902

in Bibtex Style

@conference{photoptics25,
author={Guan Huang and Chao Geng and Xinyang Li},
title={Analysis of the Influence of Atmospheric Turbulence on Laser Wireless Power Transmission},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS},
year={2025},
pages={41-48},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013167500003902},
isbn={978-989-758-736-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS
TI - Analysis of the Influence of Atmospheric Turbulence on Laser Wireless Power Transmission
SN - 978-989-758-736-8
AU - Huang G.
AU - Geng C.
AU - Li X.
PY - 2025
SP - 41
EP - 48
DO - 10.5220/0013167500003902
PB - SciTePress