Wave optical analysis of light-emitting diode beam shaping using microlens arrays

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2393-2401

  Büttner, Alexander ^a   Zeitner, Uwe D ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam homogenizer; Beam shaping; Light emitting diode; Microlens array

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LENSES; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BEAM HOMOGENIZATION; BEAM SHAPING; FRAUNHOFER APPROXIMATION; MICROLENS ARRAY; SCALAR DIFFRACTION THEORY; WAVE OPTICAL ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036812260     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1499975     Document Type: Article

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