Key Features
* 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 fieldPREFACE
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 ?i/?o 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
Kaminow & Li: Optical Fiber Telecommunications IV-A (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2002, $110.00(USD)/ £75.00(GBP), ISBN:0123951720)
