I want to find the complex fixpoint $t=b^t $ for real bases $b> \eta = \exp(\exp(-1))$.
added remark: I'm aware that there is a solution using branches of the Lambert-W-function, but I've no Maple/Mathematica and only a rough implementation in Pari/GP for real values. That motivated to try a solution via Newton/Raphson. And to understand and solve such an implementation (which has to deal with derivatives and complex values) is/was then my question here. See also my comment to Fabian's answer below. I seem to have solved it myself for the "principal branch" (see my own answer below) but it is still open for the general case of k'th branch. [end of remark]
What I have is a function depending on a parameter $ \beta $ giving the auxiliary values
$$ u = \frac{\beta}{ \sin(\beta) } *\exp( i * \beta) $$
$$ t=\exp(u) $$
$$ b= f(\beta) = \exp(u/t) = \exp(u * \exp(-u)) $$
By this I can do an approximation given a base $B$ using binary search. I can find the bounds of an interval taking lower and upper-limit beta's $ \beta_l = \epsilon $ and $ \beta_u = \pi-\epsilon $ with small epsilons giving the lower and upper bases $b_l$ and $b_u$ respectively. Then comparing $b_m = f(\beta_m)$ where $ \beta_m = (\beta_l + \beta_u)/2 $ with my given base $B$ I can implement a binary search which approximates $b_m$ to $B$ arbitrarily well and having $\beta_m$ I can reconstruct u and the fixpoint t by the above formula.
However, that binary search needs surprisingly many iterations and I thought, possibly a Newton-like method for that approximation would be more efficient. But since I have complex values involved I do not even see the derivative and even less the formula how to involve that derivative in such an approximation-formula and how to apply this finally to actually do the iterations...
[update 4] moved my own findings into an own answer (as suggested in meta.***)
[update 1] (in this old plot I used the letter s instead of b)