Photosynthetically supplemental lighting for vegetable crop production with super-bright laser diode

Yongguang Hu; Pingping Li; Jintong Shi

doi:10.1117/12.699607

7 February 2007 Photosynthetically supplemental lighting for vegetable crop production with super-bright laser diode

Yongguang Hu, Pingping Li, Jintong Shi

Proceedings Volume 6456, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications V; 64560V (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.699607
Event: Lasers and Applications in Science and Engineering, 2007, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Although many artificial light sources like high-pressure sodium lamp, metal halide lamp, fluorescent lamp and so on are commonly used in horticulture, they are not widely applied because of the disadvantages of unreasonable spectra, high cost and complex control. Recently new light sources of light-emitting diode (LED) and laser diode (LD) are becoming more and more popular in the field of display and illumination with the improvement of material and manufacturing, long life-span and increasingly low cost. A new type of super-bright red LD (BL650, central wavelength is 650 nm) was selected to make up of the supplemental lighting panel, on which LDs were distributed with regular hexagon array. Drive circuit was designed to power it and adjust light intensity. System performance including temperature rise and light intensity distribution under different vertical/horizontal distances were tested. Photosynthesis of sweet pepper and eggplant leaf under LD was measured with LI-6400 to show the supplemental lighting effects. The results show that LD system can supply the maximum light intensity of 180 &mgr;mol/m² •s at the distance of 50 mm below the panel and the temperature rise is little within 1 °C. Net photosynthetic rate became faster when LD system increased light intensity. Compared with sunlight and LED supplemental lighting system, LD's promotion on photosynthesis is in the middle. Thus it is feasible for LD light source to supplement light for vegetable crops. Further study would focus on the integration of LD and other artificial light sources.

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Yongguang Hu, Pingping Li, and Jintong Shi "Photosynthetically supplemental lighting for vegetable crop production with super-bright laser diode", Proc. SPIE 6456, High-Power Diode Laser Technology and Applications V, 64560V (7 February 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.699607

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