Though the technology of grating side-coupling is often applied in fields, such as coupling of light of single wavelength or
narrow waveband, pump of fiber laser, integration of optical waveguide, its application for broadband coupling of visible
spectrum is rarely studied. Sunlight can concentrate and output at the edge of waveguides by integrating sub-wavelength
gratings with waveguides, making it a novel solar concentrator. In this paper, we simulated different grating structures with
the finite-difference time-domain solution software (FDTD) to obtain the optimal structure design, since different grating
structures feature different diffractive efficiencies. The result demonstrates that the structures mentioned above all feature
good diffractive efficiencies in broadband wavelength, among which the blazing grating reaches the largest efficiency,
namely 48.8%.This kind of sub-wavelength gratings feature integration of small size, which makes it promising in
absorption of solar energy, such as lumination, photovoltaic cell, space melting, etc.
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