Nonimaging optics [electronic resource] Roland Winston, Juan C. Miδnano and Pablo Benitez; with contributions by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz

Successor to: High collection nonimaging optics / W.T. Welford, R. Winston

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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 -- APPENDIX A: Derivation and Explanation of the Ζtendue 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 Etendue for -- Two-Parameter -- APPENDIX E: Perfect Off-Axis Imaging -- APPENDIX F: The Luneberg Lens -- APPENDIX G: The Geometry of the Basic Compound Parabolic Concentrator Bundles of Rays -- APPENDIX H: The qi/qo 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 Hyperboloid/Lens Concentrator -- APPENDIX M: The Concentrator Design for Skew Rays

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