Maximum-performance fiber-optic irradiation with nonimaging designs

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 28, 1997, Pages 7107-7113

  Fang, Yueping ^a   Feuermann, Daniel ^a   Gordon, J M ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IRRADIATION; LENSES; MIRRORS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTODETECTORS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

COMPUTER THREE DIMENSIONAL RAY TRACING; FRESNEL REFLECTION LOSSES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0031247002     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007107     Document Type: Article

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