Crystalline Silicon White Light Sources Driven by Optical Resonances

ZnO and Al doped ZnO films were produced by spray pyrolysis. The films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), UV-vis spectroscopy, and photoluminescence. Their photocatalytic activity was evaluated by the decomposition of the methyl orange dye using different light sources: ultraviolet light, artificial white light, and direct sunlight. The films were also tested under darkness for comparison. The ZnO films were able to degrade the test pollutant under UV and sunlight in more than a 60% after 180 min of irradiation and a scarce degradation was obtained using white light. However, the Al doped ZnO films presented a very high degradation rate not only under UV and sunlight (100% degradation), but also under white light (90% degradation after the same irradiation time). An unexpected high degradation was also obtained in the dark, which indicates that a nonphotonic process is taking place parallel to the photocatalytic process. This can be due to the extra electrons—provided by the aluminum atoms—that migrate to the surface and produce radicals favoring the decomposition process even in the dark. The high activity achieved by the ZnO: Al films under natural conditions can be potentially applied to water treatment processes.

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System efficiency of laser-based white light

Advanced Optical Technologies ◽

10.1515/aot-2014-0048 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (5-6) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Roland Lachmayer ◽

Alexander Wolf ◽

Gerolf Kloppenburg

Keyword(s):

Thermal Management ◽

White Light ◽

High Power ◽

Laser Diodes ◽

Light Sources ◽

System Efficiency ◽

Light Emitting ◽

Scale Down ◽

Color Rendering ◽

Product Weight

AbstractFor many lighting applications, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are replacing traditional light sources providing the possibility for smart and efficient systems as well as a reduction in the product weight. A next step in this development is the integration of laser-based light sources to increase luminance and to further scale down the optics possibly leading to a reduction of necessary resources. This article reviews the possibilities and challenges arising from the use of laser diodes especially compared to current high-power LED systems in terms of efficiency, color-rendering properties, and thermal management.

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>25 Gbit/s LiFi with Dual Wavelength Emission, Eye-safe, Laser Based White Light Collimated and Fiber Delivered Light Sources

10.1109/icsj52620.2021.9648878 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

James Raring ◽

Changmin Lee ◽

Mohamed Sufyan Islim ◽

Sovan Das ◽

Adrian Sparks ◽

...

Keyword(s):

White Light ◽

Dual Wavelength ◽

Light Sources ◽

Wavelength Emission

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Prospects for 4-laser white-light sources

Journal of Modern Optics ◽

10.1080/09500340.2018.1517904 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 66 (3) ◽

pp. 271-280 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Snjezana Soltic ◽

Andrew N. Chalmers

Keyword(s):

White Light ◽

Light Sources

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Nanophosphors-Based White Light Sources

Nanomaterials ◽

10.3390/nano9071048 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. 1048 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Maura Cesaria ◽

Baldassare Di Bartolo

Keyword(s):

Rare Earth ◽

White Light ◽

Volume Ratio ◽

Light Sources ◽

Co Doping ◽

New Class ◽

Luminescence Efficiency ◽

Metal Doped ◽

The Individual ◽

The Impact

Miniaturization requests and progress in nanofabrication are prompting worldwide interest in nanophosphors as white-emission mercury-free lighting sources. By comparison with their bulk counterparts, nanophosphors exhibit reduced concentration quenching effects and a great potential to enhance luminescence efficiency and tunability. In this paper, the physics of the nanophoshors is overviewed with a focus on the impact of spatial confinement and surface-to-volume ratio on the luminescence issue, as well as rare earth-activated multicolor emission for white light (WL) output. In this respect, the prominently practiced strategies to achieve WL emission are single nanophosphors directly yielding WL by means of co-doping and superposition of the individual red, green, and blue emissions from different nanophosphors. Recently, a new class of efficient broadband WL emitting nanophosphors has been proposed, i.e., nominally un-doped rare earth free oxide (yttrium oxide, Y2O3) nanopowders and Cr transition metal-doped garnet nanocrystals. In regard to this unconventional WL emission, the main points are: it is strictly a nanoscale phenomenon, the presence of an emitting center may favor WL emission without being necessary for observing it, and, its inherent origin is still unknown. A comparison between such an unconventional WL emission and the existing literature is presented to point out its novelty and superior lighting performances.

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Luminous Efficacy of LED White Light Sources

Radiooptics Scientific Journal ◽

10.7463/rdopt.0616.0852322 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 16 (06) ◽

pp. 64-74

Author(s):

V Pavlov ◽

V Pyasetskiy ◽

A Horohorov ◽

A Shirankov

Keyword(s):

White Light ◽

Light Sources ◽

Luminous Efficacy

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Causes of Color in Minerals and Gemstones

Microscopy Today ◽

10.1017/s1551929500056406 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 14-17

Author(s):

Paul F. Hlava

Keyword(s):

Emission Spectrum ◽

White Light ◽

Emission Spectra ◽

Light Sources ◽

Physical Phenomena

The colors that one sees when looking at a mineral or gemstone are due to the response of that person's eye to the energies of the light, the emission spectrum of the illumination, and, most importantly, physical phenomena in the material that cause some colors to be absorbed while others are undisturbed or enhanced. It is beyond the scope of this article to do more than touch on the physiology of the eye that allows us to see colors. Likewise, we will not dwell on the emission spectra of various light sources. Rather, we will concentrate on the various ways in which materials, especially minerals and their heights of perfection, gemstones, produce color from white light.

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Variations in the 5D0 → 7F0–4 transitions of Eu3+ and white light emissions in Ag–Eu exchanged zeolite-Y

RSC Advances ◽

10.1039/c6ra20632h ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (98) ◽

pp. 95925-95935 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Xiong Yi ◽

Jiayi Sun ◽

Xiao-Fang Jiang ◽

Ye Li ◽

Qing-Hua Xu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

White Light ◽

Zeolite Y ◽

Light Sources

The variations of 5D0 → 7F0–4 transitions of Eu3+ in Ag–Eu exchanged zeolite-Y are detected and discussed upon excitation of different light sources.

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Two-Parameter Elliptical Fitting Method for Short-Cavity Fiber Fabry–Perot Sensor Interrogation

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19010036 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 36 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Xiongxing Zhang ◽

Wei Wang ◽

Haibin Chen ◽

Ying Tang ◽

Zhibo Ma ◽

...

Keyword(s):

White Light ◽

Cavity Length ◽

Processing Method ◽

Light Sources ◽

Fitting Method ◽

Data Processing Method ◽

Fabry Perot ◽

Gap Sensors ◽

Two Parameter ◽

Better Than

To solve the cavity interrogation problem of short cavity fiber Fabry–Perot sensors in white light spectral interrogation with amplified spontaneous emissions (ASEs) as the white light sources, a data processing method, using an improved elliptical fitting equation with only two undetermined coefficients, is proposed. Based on the method, the cavity length of a fiber Fabry–Perot sensor without a complete reflection spectrum period in the frequency domain can be interrogated with relatively high resolution. Extrinsic fiber Fabry–Perot air-gap sensors with cavity lengths less than 30 μm are used to experimentally verify the method, and are successfully interrogated with an accuracy better than 0.55%.

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Circadian Potency Spectrum with Extended Exposure to Polychromatic White LED Light under Workplace Conditions

Journal of Biological Rhythms ◽

10.1177/0748730420923164 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 405-415 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Martin Moore-Ede ◽

Anneke Heitmann ◽

Rainer Guttkuhn

Keyword(s):

Spectral Sensitivity ◽

White Light ◽

Light Exposure ◽

Human Subjects ◽

Light Sources ◽

Led Light ◽

Light Spectra ◽

Timing System ◽

Circadian Timing System ◽

Spectral Sensitivity Curve

Electric light has enabled humans to conquer the night, but light exposure at night can disrupt the circadian timing system and is associated with a diverse range of health disorders. To provide adequate lighting for visual tasks without disrupting the human circadian timing system, a precise definition of circadian spectral sensitivity is required. Prior attempts to define the circadian spectral sensitivity curve have used short (≤90-min) monochromatic light exposures in dark-adapted human subjects or in vitro dark-adapted isolated retina or melanopsin. Several lines of evidence suggest that these dark-adapted circadian spectral sensitivity curves, in addition to 430- to 499-nm (blue) wavelength sensitivity, may include transient 400- to 429-nm (violet) and 500- to 560-nm (green) components mediated by cone- and rod-originated extrinsic inputs to intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), which decay over the first 2 h of extended light exposure. To test the hypothesis that the human circadian spectral sensitivity in light-adapted conditions may have a narrower, predominantly blue, sensitivity, we used 12-h continuous exposures of light-adapted healthy human subjects to 6 polychromatic white light-emitting diode (LED) light sources with diverse spectral power distributions at recommended workplace levels of illumination (540 lux) to determine their effect on the area under curve of the overnight (2000–0800 h) salivary melatonin. We derived a narrow steady-state human Circadian Potency spectral sensitivity curve with a peak at 477 nm and a full-width half-maximum of 438 to 493 nm. This light-adapted Circadian Potency spectral sensitivity permits the development of spectrally engineered LED light sources to minimize circadian disruption and address the health risks of light exposure at night in our 24/7 society, by alternating between daytime circadian stimulatory white light spectra and nocturnal circadian protective white light spectra.

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