Intermittent chaos for ergodic light trapping in a photonic fiber plate

Marina Mariano; Gregory Kozyreff; Luis G Gerling; Pablo Romero-Gomez; Joaquim Puigdollers; Jorge Bravo-Abad; Jordi Martorell

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.216

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Intermittent chaos for ergodic light trapping in a photonic fiber plate

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- Intermittent chaos for ergodic light trapping in a photonic fiber plate
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 5, Issue 4, (2016)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona) 08860, Spain
  2.Département de Physique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Campus de la Plaine, Bruxelles B-1050, Belgium
  3.Departament Enginyeria Electrònica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona 08034, Spain
  4.Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada and Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid 28049, Spain
  5.Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Terrassa 08222, Spain
- Author bio：
  
  G Kozyreff, Email: gkozyref@ulb.ac.be
  J Martorell, Email: jordi.martorell@icfo.es
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.216
  CLC：
- Published：2016-12，
  
  Published Online：06 September 2016，
  
  Received：29 December 2015，
  
  Revised：20 August 2016，
  
  Accepted：04 September 2016
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Mariano, M. et al. Intermittent chaos for ergodic light trapping in a photonic fiber plate. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16216 (2016).
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Mariano, M. et al. Intermittent chaos for ergodic light trapping in a photonic fiber plate. Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16216 (2016). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.216.

摘要

Abstract

Extracting the light trapped in a waveguide

or the opposite effect of trapping light in a thin region and guiding it perpendicular to its incident propagation direction

is essential for optimal energetic performance in illumination

display or light harvesting devices. Here we demonstrate that the paradoxical goal of letting as much light in or out while maintaining the wave effectively trapped can be achieved with a periodic array of interpenetrated fibers forming a photonic fiber plate. Photons entering perpendicular to that plate may be trapped in an intermittent chaotic trajectory

leading to an optically ergodic system. We fabricated such a photonic fiber plate and showed that for a solar cell incorporated on one of the plate surfaces

light absorption is greatly enhanced. Confirming this

we found the unexpected result that a more chaotic photon trajectory reduces the production of photon scattering entropy.

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Keywords

chaosergodicityfiberlight-guiding platelight harvestinglight trapping

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