White LED sources for vehicle forward lighting

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4776, Issue , 2002, Pages 195-205

  Van Derlofske, John F ^a   McColgan, Michele ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automotive forward lighting; Illumination; LEDs; Nonimaging optics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LAMPS; GLARE; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOMETRY;

AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING SYSTEMS; COLOR APPEARANCE; POWER CONSUMPTION; TOTAL LIGHT OUTPUT;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 0036981786     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452569     Document Type: Conference Paper

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