High-efficiency free-form condenser overcoming rotational symmetry limitations

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20193-20205

  Miñano, Juan C ^a   Benítez, Pablo ^a   Blen, José ^b   Santamaría, Asunción ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b LPI LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

CONDENSER DESIGN; CONVENTIONAL CONDENSERS; ETENDUE; FREEFORMS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL POWER; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; THEORETICAL LIMITS;

ASPECT RATIO;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; ROTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ROTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 57349192892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020193     Document Type: Article

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