Elliptical concentrators

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 29, 2006, Pages 7622-7627

  Garcia Botella, Angel ^a   Fernandez Balbuena, Antonio Alvarez ^b   Bernabeu, Eusebio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE KINEMATICS; LIGHTING; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ELLIPTICAL CONCENTRATORS; NONIMAGING OPTICS; OPTICAL COMPONENTS;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

EID: 33750562782     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007622     Document Type: Article

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