
Nonimaging Optics
- 1st Edition - December 22, 2004
- Authors: Roland Winston, Juan C. Minano, Pablo G. Benitez, With contributions by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 7 5 9 7 5 1 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 7 9 7 3 - 6
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… Read more

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- The only authoritative reference on non-imaging optics, from the leader in the field
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
- No. of pages: 512
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 22, 2004
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780127597515
- eBook ISBN: 9780080479736
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Roland Winston
JM
Juan C. Minano
PB
Pablo G. Benitez
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