Nonimaging solar concentrator with uniform irradiance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5529, Issue , 2004, Pages 237-239

  Winston, Roland ^a   O'Gallagher, Joseph J ^b   Gee, Randy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Solargenix Energy ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Nonimaging optics; Photovoltaic concentrator; Uniform flux

Indexed keywords

NONIMAGING OPTICS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONCENTRATORS; RIM ANGLE; UNIFORM FLUX;

GRAPH THEORY; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; REFRACTION; SILICA; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 15744402301     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.561303     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Welford, W. T., O'Gallagher, J., and Winston, R. (1987). Axially symmetric nonimaging flux concentrators with maximum theoretical concentration ratio, J. Opt. Soc. Am A 4, 66-68.
2. Winston, R., and Welford, W. T. (1980). Design of nonimaging concentrors as second stages in tandem with image-forming first stage concentrators. Appl. Opt. 72, 1564-1566.
3. See Bortz, J., Shantz, N., Winston, R., International Symposium on Nonimaging Optics: Maximum Efficiency Light Transfer V, SPIE Annual Meeting, Denver, 1999.
4. A similar approach of primary concentrator with optical mixer has been taken by Jeffrey Gordon, Ben-Gurion University, Bersheeva, Isreal. We are grateful to Prof. Gordon for sending us his paper prior to publication.