An investigation on the light uniformers based on liquid guide

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5941, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-11

  Yang, Yi ^a   Yin, Shizhuo ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam uniformity; Color mixing; LED; Light mixer; Light uniformer; Lighting; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

BEAM UNIFORMITY; COLOR MIXING; LIGHT MIXER; LIGHT UNIFORMER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MIXING; RAY TRACING;

LIGHTING;

EID: 31844455088     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.613066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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