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Nonimaging Optics,

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Editors: By Roland Winston, Juan C. Minano, Pablo G. Benitez and With contributions by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz

Publication Date: 22 Dec 2004

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From its inception nearly 30 years ago, the optical subdiscipline now referred to as nonimaging optics, has experienced dramatic growth. The term nonimaging optics is concerned with applications where imaging formation is not important but where effective and efficient collection , concentration, transport and distribution of light energy is - i.e. solar energy conversion, signal detection, illumination optics, measurement and testing. This book will incorporate the substantial developments of the past decade in this field.

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Includes all substantial developments of the past decade in the rapidly moving field of non-imaging optics
The only authoritative reference on non-imaging optics, from the leader in the field

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By Roland Winston, University of California at Merced; Juan C. Minano, Technical University of Madrid UPM, CEDINT, Madrid, Spain and Light Prescriptions Innovators LLC, Irvine, CA, USA; Pablo G. Benitez, Technical University of Madrid UPM, CEDINT, Madrid, Spain and Light Prescriptions Innovators LLC, Irvine, CA, USA and With contributions by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz, Science Applications International Corporation

1. Nonimaging Optical Systems and Their Uses
2. Some Basic Ideas in Geometrical Optics
3. Some Designs of Image-Forming Concentrators
4. Nonimaging Optical Systems
5. Developments and Modifications of the Compound
Parabolic Concentrator
6. The Flow-line Method for Designing Nonimaging Optical Systems
7. Concentrators for Prescribed Irradiance
8. Simultaneous Multiple Surface Design Method
9. Imaging Applications of Nonimaging Concentrators
10. Consequences of Symmetry (by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz)
11. Global Optimization of High-Performance Concentrators (by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz)
12. A Paradigm for a Wave Description of Optical Measurements
13. Applications to Solar Energy Concentration
14. Manufacturing Tolerances

Appendices A-M
A: Derivation and Explanation of the Étendue Invariant, Including the Dynamical Analogy;
Derivation of the Skew Invariant
B: The Edge-Ray Theorem
C: Conservation of Skew and Linear Momentum
D: Conservation of Etendue for Two-Parameter
E: Perfect Off-Axis Imaging
F: The Luneberg Lens
G: The Geometry of the Basic Compound Parabolic Concentrator Bundles of Rays
H: The qi/qo Concentrator
I: The Truncated Compound Parabolic Concentrator
J: The Differential Equation for the 2D Concentrator Profile with Nonplane Absorber
K: Skew Rays in Hyperboloidal Concentrator
L: Sine Relation for Hyperboloid/Lens Concentrator
M: The Concentrator Design for Skew Rays

ISBN: 9780127597515

Page Count: 512

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Advanced undergraduate & graduate students, workers in illumination optics & signal detection, in solar energy conversion, in measurement & testing; members of OSA, SPIE, APS, and Solar energy groups (ASES and ISES) who work in nonimaging optics

Nonimaging Optics,

Editors: By Roland Winston, Juan C. Minano, Pablo G. Benitez and With contributions by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz

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