Passive and active waveguide systems for solar concentrators / von M.Sc. Maik Meudt. Wuppertal, 2023
Content
- Introduction
- Electromagnetic Theory of Waveguides and Structured Systems
- Maxwell equations
- Planar optical waveguides
- Fundamentals of Plasmonics
- Periodic layers for light coupling
- Computation of RCWA
- Phenomena of an Exemplary Waveguide Grating
- Out- and Incoupling Efficiency and Concentration
- Short Summary
- Experimental Methods
- Passive Systems
- Plasmonic Structures for Strong and Broadband Light Coupling
- Plasmonic Black Silver by Transfer Printing
- Fourier-Space engineering via Plasmon- and Light-induced growth of AgNPs
- Long Propagation Lengths utilizing TE Node Modes
- Complete Suppression of Outcoupling with Hybrid Bound States in the Continuum
- Short summary
- Active waveguide systems: Broadband Electrically Controlled Light Trapping
- Theory of Light Trapping and Perfect Local Outcoupling
- Exemplary Calculation of a Symmetric Waveguide
- Effects of Finite Beam Size
- Effects of Unequal Beam Powers and Varying Relative Phases
- Comparison to the Experiment
- Outlook
- Bibliography