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June 8, 2023, Kent, WA – PowerLight Technologies was issued U.S. Patent No. 11,681,071 for a safety system for free space power beaming. PLT now holds 17 U.S. patents, in addition to a number of foreign patents and worldwide applications. Power beaming involves transmitting optical power from a laser to a receiver that can convert it back …

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April 22, 2023, Kent, WA – PowerLight Technologies, the leading developer of safe, long-distance wireless power beaming solutions for kilowatt class power levels over kilometers of distance, announced that CTO Tom Nugent presented a plenary talk on “The Present and Future of Laser Power Beaming: Capabilities & Customers,” at the 5th Optical Wireless and Fiber Power Transmission Conference 2023 …

PowerLight CTO Tom Nugent Presented Plenary Talk on “The Present and Future of Laser Power Beaming: Capabilities & Customers”, at the 5th Optical Wireless and Fiber Power Transmission Conference 2023 Read More »

Power beaming has long been a dream of engineers and innovators. Defined as the point-to-point transfer of electrical energy by a directed electromagnetic beam, the idea originated from Serbian-American physicist Nikola Tesla at the turn of the 20th century. After decades of alternating between optimism and abandonment, power beaming is finally becoming a reality, thanks …

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  SEATTLE, Oct. 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PowerLight Technologies is excited to welcome Luis Spinelli as our newest advisory board member.  As a 35-year veteran of the photonics industry, the author of many technical and scientific papers, and with over 45 patents, Luis brings exceptional technical expertise and a wealth of industry insights. His experience developing …

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PowerLight is proud to be the latest recipient of the 2022 FiReStarter award, thanks to their trailblazing wireless power beaming technology. Given the FiReStarter community’s focus on technologies that promise to address the world’s most pressing issues, PowerLight is excited to be included in a long line of hugely successful startups, from Tesla to Titan …

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Ericsson has teamed up with US laser specialist PowerLight Technologies to achieve a safe, fully wireless-powered 5G base station for the deployment of Radio Access Network (RAN) sites. The proof-of-concept (PoC) demo milestone was achieved recently in Seattle using optical beaming, a laser-based technology that converts electricity into high-intensity light which is then captured and …

TelecomPaper: Ericsson, PowerLight demonstrate world’s first wireless powered 5G base station Read More »

Beaming power wirelessly using laser beams has been the stuff of science fiction for decades — but Kent, Wash.-based PowerLight Technologies and Ericsson, the Swedish-based multinational telecommunications company, have shown how it can become a reality for 5G wireless service. It may take a couple of years for PowerLight’s beamed-power system to get integrated into …

Yahoo Life: PowerLight and Ericsson demonstrate laser beaming system to power 5G Base Station Read More »

Ericsson aspires to deliver 5G connectivity without linking to the power grid by wirelessly powering base stations with lasers. To that end, the infrastructure vendor has teamed up with laser specialist PowerLight Technologies to develop the first base station wirelessly powered by a laser. The pair have demonstrated a proof-of-concept (PoC) test in Seattle. Read …

EE Times: Ericsson’s Laser-Powered Wireless 5G Ambitions Read More »

In trials, PowerLight’s system transmitted “hundreds of watts over hundreds of meters through the air” to power up a 5G cellular base station, according to Ericsson, which ran the demo in cooperation with PowerLight using an Ericsson Streetmacro 6701 base station. (It consumes a maximum of 300W.) Read Full Article Here

Ericsson has taken a major step towards commercialising wireless power transmission in a “larger-scale” system – effectively taking the wireless charging technology that’s becoming increasingly common in our smartphones and using it to get the juice flowing to something much, much bigger. Read Full Article Here