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Vol. 3, Issue 3, 100099 (2024)

Remote electric powering by germanium photovoltaic conversion of an Erbium-fiber laser beam

Richard Soref^1、*, Francesco De Leonardis², Oussama Moutanabbir³, and Gerard Daligou³

Author Affiliations

¹Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts at Boston, Boston 02125, USA

²Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Bari 70121-70132, Italy

³Department of Engineering Physics, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal 999040, Canada

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