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Design and fabrication of light-guiding plate for a photobioreactor that utilizes sunlight

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We present the results of the optical design and fabrication of a light-guiding plate (LGP) that utilizes sunlight to be adopted as an illumination system for photobioreactors. A solar daylighting system was employed as the light source for the LGP. We modeled the light sources (optical fiber exit ports of the solar daylighting system), a reflection film, and LGP patterns. An LGP (1000 mm × 500 mm × 10 mm) was designed and fabricated using a computerized numerical control machine. It was optimized for the average deviation of the illuminance distribution by varying the maximum pattern spacing, minimum pattern spacing, and spacing constant of the pattern spacing function expressed in the form of an exponential function. Average illuminance and uniformity of the illuminance distribution of the fabricated LGP were measured to be 8174 lx (photon flux density: 122.0 μΕ m−2 s−1) and 90.0 %, respectively.

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This study was supported by research fund from Chosun University, 2014.

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  1. Department of Photonic Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, 501-759, Korea

    Hyon-Chol Lim, Hun Kim, Kyungmin Jang, Jae-Young Kim, Joon-Hyuck Baek, Seung-Jin Yang & Jong-Rak Park

  2. Kodenshi AUK Co., Ltd., Iksan, 530-800, Korea

    Hun Kim

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, 501-759, Korea

    Sang-Hwa Jeong

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Lim, HC., Kim, H., Jang, K. et al. Design and fabrication of light-guiding plate for a photobioreactor that utilizes sunlight. Opt Rev 22, 779–785 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-015-0129-y

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