Realizable planar gradient-index solar lenses

Panagiotis Kotsidas; Vijay Modi; Jeffrey M. Gordon

doi:10.1364/OL.37.001235

Realizable planar gradient-index solar lenses

Panagiotis Kotsidas
, Vijay Modi
, Jeffrey M. Gordon

The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research

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The design of single element planar hemispherical gradient-index solar lenses that can accommodate the constraints of realistic materials and fabrication techniques are presented, and simulated with an extended and polychromatic solar source for concentrator photovoltaics at flux concentration values exceeding 1000 suns. The planar hemispherical far-field lens is created from a near-field unit magnification spherical gradient-index design, and illustrated with an f/1.40 square solar lens that allows lossless packing within a concentrator module.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1235-1237
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	37
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.37.001235
State	Published - 1 Apr 2012

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