An inverse engineering perspective on nonimaging optical design

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2538, Issue , 1995, Pages 136-156

  Shatz, Narkis ^a   Bortz, John ^a  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Global optimization; Inverse engineering; Nonimaging optics; Variational principle

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; REFLECTION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

INVERSE ENGINEERING; IRRADIANCE REDISTRIBUTION; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; NON-IMAGING OPTICS; PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE; PIECEWISE-CONTINUOUS; RADIANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES;

LIGHT;

EID: 85078106952     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.216977     Document Type: Conference Paper

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