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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, tra...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Winston, Roland
Other Authors: Mi�nano, Juan C., Ben�itez, Pablo, 1969-, Welford, W. T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston, Mass. : Elsevier Academic Press, �2005.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.