General near-zone light source model and its application to computer-automated reflector design

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2661-2679

  Siegel, M W ^a   Stock, Robert D ^b,c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer automated reflector design; Near zone light source model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005355409     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600832     Document Type: Article

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