From its inception nearly 30 years ago, the optical subdiscipline now referred to as nonimaging optics, has experienced dramatic growth. The term nonimaging 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 - i.e. solar energy conversion, signal detection, illumination optics, measurement and testing. This book will incorporate the substantial developments of the past decade in this field.
- Includes all substantial developments of the past decade in the rapidly moving field of non-imaging optics
- The only authoritative reference on non-imaging optics, from the leader in the field
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1. Nonimaging Optical Systems and Their Uses2. Some Basic Ideas in Geometrical Optics3. Some Designs of Image-Forming Concentrators4. Nonimaging Optical Systems5. Developments and Modifications of the CompoundParabolic Concentrator6. The Flow-line Method for Designing Nonimaging Optical Systems7. Concentrators for Prescribed Irradiance8. Simultaneous Multiple Surface Design Method9. Imaging Applications of Nonimaging Concentrators10. Consequences of Symmetry (by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz)11. Global Optimization of High-Performance Concentrators (by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz)12. A Paradigm for a Wave Description of Optical Measurements13. Applications to Solar Energy Concentration14. Manufacturing TolerancesAppendices A-MA: Derivation and Explanation of the Étendue Invariant, Including the Dynamical Analogy;Derivation of the Skew InvariantB: The Edge-Ray TheoremC: Conservation of Skew and Linear MomentumD: Conservation of Etendue for Two-ParameterE: Perfect Off-Axis ImagingF: The Luneberg LensG: The Geometry of the Basic Compound Parabolic Concentrator Bundles of RaysH: The qi/qo ConcentratorI: The Truncated Compound Parabolic ConcentratorJ: The Differential Equation for the 2D Concentrator Profile with Nonplane AbsorberK: Skew Rays in Hyperboloidal ConcentratorL: Sine Relation for Hyperboloid/Lens ConcentratorM: The Concentrator Design for Skew Rays
