Discontinuous free-form lens design for prescribed irradiance

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3716-3723

  Wang, Lin ^a   Qian, Keyuan ^a   Luo, Yi ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IRRADIATION; LIGHT SOURCES; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

POINT SOURCE; SURFACE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SURFACE POINTS; TARGET PLANE;

LENSES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 34447626103     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.003716     Document Type: Article

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