Optical elements for mixing colored LEDs to create white light

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4776, Issue , 2002, Pages 206-214

  Zhao, Feng ^a   Narendran, Nadarajah ^a   Van Derlofske, John ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Architectural lighting; Color mixing; LED; Light guide; White light LED

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOSPHORS;

ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING; COLOR MIXING; LIGHT GUIDES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 0036983371     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452572     Document Type: Article

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