Designing freeform reflectors for extended sources

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7423, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fournier, Florian R ^a   Cassarly, William J ^b   Rolland, Jannick P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OPTICAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

illumination; lighting; luminaires; nonimaging optics; optimization; reflector design

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY SHAPE; DESIGN METHOD; EXTENDED SOURCES; FREEFORMS; ILLUMINANCE DISTRIBUTION; ILLUMINATION; LED ILLUMINATION; LUMINAIRES; LUMINANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; NONIMAGING OPTICS; NONUNIFORM; REFLECTOR DESIGN;

LIGHTING; OPTIMIZATION; REFLECTION;

DESIGN;

EID: 78049384534     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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