Ultracompact backlight-reversed concentration optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 4142-4148

  Chien, Ming Chin ^a   Tung, Yu Lung ^a   Tien, Chung Hao ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE TREATMENT;

CONCENTRATION OPTICS; CONCENTRATION RATIO; INVERSE ASPECT RATIO; OPTICAL ARRANGEMENT; OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL FUNCTION; SOLAR RADIANCE; WEDGE PLATES;

SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLAR ENERGY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 68149182646     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.004142     Document Type: Article

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