Gradient-index lenses for near-ideal imaging and concentration with realistic materials

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 15584-15595

  Kotsidas, Panagiotis ^a   Modi, Vijay ^a   Gordon, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; GRADIENT-INDEX LENS; REALISTIC MATERIALS; SOLAR LENS;

LENSES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; SOLAR ENERGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LENSES; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 79961085814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015584     Document Type: Article

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