Nonimaging Optics
Published on 20. January 2005
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-12-759751-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Nonimaging Optics" is very popular in the industry, and the book should do quite well if it is written from the point of view of an Engineer. Prof. ROLAND WINSTON is "the expert" in this field and should do a very good job. We just hired one of his colleagues from Germany here at the Institute of Optics, and he will be teaching a course on this topic.The book is mostly theoretical, but applications to solar energy concentration are discussed at length. Mathematical foundations are explored in 13 appendices. References are numerous and up-to-date, and the index serves its purpose." --OPN Optics & Photonics News, Sept. 2006
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Advanced undergraduate & graduate students, workers in illumination optics & signal detection, in solar energy conversion, in measurement & testing; members of OSA, SPIE, APS, and Solar energy groups (ASES and ISES) who work in nonimaging optics.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
1020 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-759751-5 (9780127597515)
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Additional editions
Roland Winston | Juan C. Minano | Pablo G. Benitez
Nonimaging Optics
E-Book
05/2014
Academic Press
€94.95
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Persons
By Roland Winston
Author
University of California at Merced
Technical University of Madrid UPM, CEDINT, Madrid, Spain and Light Prescriptions Innovators LLC, Irvine, CA, USA
Technical University of Madrid UPM, CEDINT, Madrid, Spain and Light Prescriptions Innovators LLC, Irvine, CA, USA
Science Applications International Corporation
Content
1. Nonimaging Optical Systems and Their Uses
2. Some Basic Ideas in Geometrical Optics
3. Some Designs of Image-Forming Concentrators
4. Nonimaging Optical Systems
5. Developments and Modifications of the Compound
Parabolic Concentrator
6. The Flow-line Method for Designing Nonimaging Optical Systems
7. Concentrators for Prescribed Irradiance
8. Simultaneous Multiple Surface Design Method
9. Imaging Applications of Nonimaging Concentrators
10. 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 Measurements
13. Applications to Solar Energy Concentration
14. Manufacturing Tolerances
Appendices A-M
A: Derivation and Explanation of the Etendue Invariant, Including the Dynamical Analogy;
Derivation of the Skew Invariant
B: The Edge-Ray Theorem
C: Conservation of Skew and Linear Momentum
D: Conservation of Etendue for Two-Parameter
E: Perfect Off-Axis Imaging
F: The Luneberg Lens
G: The Geometry of the Basic Compound Parabolic Concentrator Bundles of Rays
H: The qi/qo Concentrator
I: The Truncated Compound Parabolic Concentrator
J: The Differential Equation for the 2D Concentrator Profile with Nonplane Absorber
K: Skew Rays in Hyperboloidal Concentrator
L: Sine Relation for Hyperboloid/Lens Concentrator
M: The Concentrator Design for Skew Rays
2. Some Basic Ideas in Geometrical Optics
3. Some Designs of Image-Forming Concentrators
4. Nonimaging Optical Systems
5. Developments and Modifications of the Compound
Parabolic Concentrator
6. The Flow-line Method for Designing Nonimaging Optical Systems
7. Concentrators for Prescribed Irradiance
8. Simultaneous Multiple Surface Design Method
9. Imaging Applications of Nonimaging Concentrators
10. 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 Measurements
13. Applications to Solar Energy Concentration
14. Manufacturing Tolerances
Appendices A-M
A: Derivation and Explanation of the Etendue Invariant, Including the Dynamical Analogy;
Derivation of the Skew Invariant
B: The Edge-Ray Theorem
C: Conservation of Skew and Linear Momentum
D: Conservation of Etendue for Two-Parameter
E: Perfect Off-Axis Imaging
F: The Luneberg Lens
G: The Geometry of the Basic Compound Parabolic Concentrator Bundles of Rays
H: The qi/qo Concentrator
I: The Truncated Compound Parabolic Concentrator
J: The Differential Equation for the 2D Concentrator Profile with Nonplane Absorber
K: Skew Rays in Hyperboloidal Concentrator
L: Sine Relation for Hyperboloid/Lens Concentrator
M: The Concentrator Design for Skew Rays