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Nonimaging Optics

  • 1st Edition - December 22, 2004
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Roland Winston, Juan C. Minano, Pablo G. Benitez, With contributions by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz
  • Language: English

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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Description

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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

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

Table of contents

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

Review quotes

"Nonimaging Optics"is very popular in the industry, and the book should do quite well if it is written from the point of view of an Engineer. Prof. ROLAND WINSTON is "the expert"in this field and should do a very good job. We just hired one of his colleagues from Germany here at the Institute of Optics, and he will be teaching a course on this topic.

The book is mostly theoretical, but applications to solar energy concentration are discussed at length. Mathematical foundations are explored in 13 appendices. References are numerous and up-to-date, and the index serves its purpose."—OPN Optics & Photonics News, Sept. 2006

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 22, 2004
  • Language: English

About the authors

RW

Roland Winston

Affiliations and expertise
University of California at Merced

JM

Juan C. Minano

Affiliations and expertise
Technical University of Madrid UPM, CEDINT, Madrid, Spain and Light Prescriptions Innovators LLC, Irvine, CA, USA

PB

Pablo G. Benitez

Affiliations and expertise
Technical University of Madrid UPM, CEDINT, Madrid, Spain and Light Prescriptions Innovators LLC, Irvine, CA, USA

WN

With contributions by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz

Affiliations and expertise
Science Applications International Corporation

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