Design of nonimaging lenses and lens-mirror combinations

Juan Carlos Minano; Juan Paris P. Gonzalez

doi:10.1117/12.49135

24 October 1991 Design of nonimaging lenses and lens-mirror combinations

Juan Carlos Minano, Juan Paris P. Gonzalez

Proceedings Volume 1528, Nonimaging Optics: Maximum Efficiency Light Transfer; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.49135
Event: San Diego, '91, 1991, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A new method of design of nonimaging concentrators is presented and two new types of concentrators are developed. The first one is an aspheric lens, and the second one is a lens- mirror combination. A ray tracing of 3-D concentrators (with rotational symmetry) has also been done, showing that the lens-mirror combination has a total transmission as high as that of the full compound parabolic concentrators, while their depth is much smaller than the classical parabolic mirror-nonimaging concentrator combinations (8 times smaller or more). Another important feature of this concentrator is that the optical surfaces are not in contact with the receiver, as occurs in other nonimaging concentrators.

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Juan Carlos Minano and Juan Paris P. Gonzalez "Design of nonimaging lenses and lens-mirror combinations", Proc. SPIE 1528, Nonimaging Optics: Maximum Efficiency Light Transfer, (24 October 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.49135

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