Numerical Simulation of Light Extraction from Remote Phosphor LED

Abstract

In this paper, light extraction from remote phosphor LEDs were calculated in Zemax OpticStudio. The dependence of the optical characteristics of the remote phosphor LED on the parameters of phosphor and its geometrical form was considered. In case of a thin plate as a remote phosphor, phosphor particle size, phosphor mass fraction and phosphor plate thickness were carefully analyzed. Furthermore, a plane-convex lens and Fresnel lens were also considered as geometrical form of remote phosphor. The simulation results show that color coordinates of LED, using remote phosphor plate (thickness 0.25 mm, mass fraction 30% and particle size 3 μm of phosphor), are the closest to D65 point on color space com-pared to other considered LEDs. The use of plane-convex lens (thickness 1 mm, radius of curvature 7 mm, base diameter 7 mm) as remote phosphor results in the maximum luminous flux compared to other forms.