Bandwidth limits of luminescent solar concentrators as detectors in free-space optical communication systems.

ABSTRACT: Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) have recently emerged as a promising receiver technology in free-space optical communications due to their inherent ability to collect light from a wide field-of-view and concentrate it into small areas, thus leading to high optical gains. Several high-speed communication systems integrating LSCs in their detector blocks have already been demonstrated, with the majority of efforts so far being devoted to maximising the received optical power and the system's field-of-view. However, LSCs may pose a severe bottleneck on the bandwidth of such communication channels due to the comparably slow timescale of the fluorescence events involved, a situation further aggravated by the inherent reabsorption in these systems, and yet, an in-depth study into such dyn

SUBMITTER: Portnoi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7775919 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature