Consequences of étendue and skewness conservation for nonimaging devices with inhomogeneous sources and targets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3139, Issue , 1997, Pages 59-75

  Bortz, John C ^a   Shatz, Narkis E ^a   Ries, Harald ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

tendue; Global optimization; Inhomogeneous sources; Inverse engineering; Nonimaging optics; Performance limits; Skew invariant

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

ACHIEVABLE PERFORMANCE; IMPORTANCE WEIGHTING; INHOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; INVERSE ENGINEERING; NON-IMAGING OPTICS; PERFORMANCE LIMITS; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; SKEW INVARIANT;

LIGHT;

EID: 0010559994     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.290222     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. H. Ries, N. Shatz, J. Bortz, and W. Spirkl, "Performance limitations of rotationally symmetric nonimaging devices," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, (in press), 1997.
2. H. Ries, N. Shatz, J. Bortz, and W. Spirkl, "Consequences of skewness conservation for rotationally symmetric nonimaging devices," (these proceedings), 1997.
3. W. Welford and R. Winston, High Collection Nonimaging Optics, pp. 22-28, Academic Press, New York, 1989.