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Nonimaging Optics

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ISBN-10: 0127597514

ISBN-13: 9780127597515

Edition: 2005

Authors: Roland Winston, Juan C. Minano, Pablo G. Benitez, With contributions by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz, Narkis Shatz

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Non-imaging optics is concerned with applications where imaging formation is not important but where effective and efficient collection, concentration, transport and distribution of light energy is. This text reviews the substantial developments that have been reported in the field over the past decade.
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Book details

List price: $131.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 1/20/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Nonimaging Optical Systems and Their Uses
Some Basic Ideas in Geometrical Optics
Some Designs of Image-Forming Concentrators
Nonimaging Optical Systems
Developments and Modifications of the Compound Parabolic Concentrator
The Flow-line Method for Designing Nonimaging Optical Systems
Concentrators for Prescribed Irradiance
Simultaneous Multiple Surface Design Method
Imaging Applications of Nonimaging Concentrators
Consequences of Symmetry
Global Optimization of High-Performance Concentrators
A Paradigm for a Wave Description of Optical Measurements
Applications to Solar Energy Concentration
Manufacturing Tolerances
Appendices A-M
Derivation and Explanation of the Etendue Invariant, Including the Dynamical Analogy Derivation of the Skew Invariant
The Edge-Ray Theorem
Conservation of Skew and Linear Momentum
Conservation of Etendue for Two-Parameter
Perfect Off-Axis Imaging
The Luneberg Lens
The Geometry of the Basic Compound Parabolic Concentrator Bundles of Rays
The qi/qo Concentrator
The Truncated Compound Parabolic Concentrator
The Differential Equation for the 2D Concentrator Profile with Nonplane Absorber
Skew Rays in Hyperboloidal Concentrator
Sine Relation for Hyperboloid/Lens Concentrator
The Concentrator Design for Skew Rays