Solar surgery: Remote fiber optic irradiation with highly concentrated sunlight in lieu of lasers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2760-2767

  Feuermann, Daniel ^a,b,c   Gordon, Jeffrey M ^a,d,e  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ctr for Ener and Environ Physics   (Israel)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biomedical optics; Concentrators; Fiber optic applications; Nonimaging optics; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001583464     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601813     Document Type: Article

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