Nonimaging Optics

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 nonimaging optics
  * The only authoritative reference on nonimaging optics, from the leader in the field

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.

PREFACE

Chapter 1: NONIMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEMS AND THEIR USES

Chapter 2: SOME BASIC IDEAS IN GEOMETRICAL OPTICS

Chapter 3: SOME DESIGNS OF IMAGE-FORMING CONCENTRATORS

Chapter 4: NONIMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEMS

Chapter 5: DEVELOPMENTS AND MODIFICATIONS OF THE COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATOR

Chapter 6: THE FLOW-LINE METHOD FOR DESIGNING NONIMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEMS

Chapter 7: CONCENTRATORS FOR PRESCRIBED IRRADIANCE

Chapter 8: SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLE SURFACE DESIGN METHOD

Chapter 9: IMAGING APPLICATIONS OF NONIMAGING CONCENTRATORS

Chapter 10: CONSEQUENCES OF SYMMETRY

Chapter 11: GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCENTRATORS

Chapter 12: A PARADIGM FOR A WAVE DESCRIPTION OF OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS

Chapter 13: APPLICATIONS TO SOLAR ENERGY CONCENTRATION

Chapter 14: MANUFACTURING TOLERANCES

APPENDICES

Appendix A: DERIVATION AND EXPLANATION OF THE ÉTENDUE INVARIANT, INCLUDING THE DYNAMICAL ANALOGY; DERIVATION OF THE SKEW INVARIANT

Appendix B: THE EDGE-RAY THEOREM

Appendix C: CONSERVATION OF SKEW AND LINEAR MOMENTUM

Appendix D: CONSERVATION OF ÉTENDUE FOR TWO-PARAMETER BUNDLES OF RAYS

Appendix E: PERFECT OFF-AXIS IMAGING

Appendix F: THE LUNEBURG LENS

Appendix G: THE GEOMETRY OF THE BASIC COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATOR

Appendix H: THE θi/θo CONCENTRATOR

Appendix I: THE TRUNCATED COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATOR

Appendix J: THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION FOR THE 2D CONCENTRATOR PROFILE WITH NONPLANE ABSORBER

Appendix K: SKEW RAYS IN HYPERBOLOIDAL CONCENTRATOR

Appendix L: SINE RELATION FOR HYPERBOLOIDAL/LENS CONCENTRATOR

Appendix M: THE CONCENTRATOR DESIGN FOR SKEW RAYS

INDEX