Nonimaging Optics Conference

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2001 Proceedings

The proceedings of Nonimaging Optics: Maximum Efficiency Light Transfer VI have been published in Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 4446, edited by Roland Winston .

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Proceedings at a Glance

10

Sessions

27

Published Papers

Explore the published papers and presentations from the 2001 Nonimaging Optics conference, which was organized on 29 July - 3 August 2001 in San Diego, CA, United States.

Papers and Presentations

Session 1

Elliptic bundles in homogeneous refractive index media: toward the general solution

Pablo Benitez ; Juan Carlos Minano ; Manuel Gutierrez

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Application of the 2D etendue conservation to the design of achromatic aplanatic aspheric doublets

Juan Carlos Minano ; Pablo Benitez ; Fernando Munoz

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Design, construction, and measurement of a dielectric single-mirror two-stage (DSMTS) photovoltaic concentrator

Ruben Mohedano Arroyo ; Pablo Benitez ; Juan Carlos Minano ; Francisco Bercero ; Pablo Lobato

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TIR-R concentrator: a new compact high-gain SMS design

Jose L. Alvarez ; Maikel Hernandez ; Pablo Benitez ; Juan Carlos Minano

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Session 2

High-concentration photovoltaic designs based on miniature parabolic dishes

Daniel Feuermann ; Jeffrey M. Gordon

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Nonimaging solar concentrator with near-uniform irradiance for photovoltaic arrays

Joseph J. O'Gallagher ; Roland Winston ; Randy Gee

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Light leakage in optical fibers: experimental results, modeling, and the consequences for remote lighting and solar concentrator systems

Daniel Feuermann ; Jeffrey M. Gordon ; Mahmud Huleihal

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High-power solar energy transmission by solid-core fused silica light guides

Dawei Liang ; Sandra Duarte ; Joao Trindade ; Daniel Ferreira ; Luis Fraser Monteiro

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Session 5

Performance limitations of translationally symmetric nonimaging devices

John C. Bortz ; Narkis E. Shatz ; Roland Winston

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Session 3

Gradient-index lenses as flux concentrators

Jeffrey M. Gordon

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Nonideal concentration of nonimaging linear Fresnel lenses

Ralf Leutz ; Akio Suzuki ; Atsushi Akisawa ; Takao Kashiwagi

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Variable-geometry nonimaging optics devices

Julio Chaves ; Manuel Collares-Pereira

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Lens for uniform LED illumination: an example of automated optimization using Monte Carlo ray-tracing of an LED source

Benjamin A. Jacobson ; Robert D. Gengelbach

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Session 4

Measuring radiance and the van-Cittert-Zernicke theorem (In memory of Vladimir Medvedev, formerly a member of the Vavilov Optical Science Institute, St. Petersburg [Leningrad], Russia)

Roland Winston ; YuPin Sun ; Robert G. Littlejohn

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Design of reflector contours to satisfy photometric criteria using physically realizable light sources

Domina Eberle Spencer

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Solar thermal plasma chamber

Joseph Bonometti ; Donald R. Buchele ; Charles H. Castle ; Don A. Gregory

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Multimode antenna optimization

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Session 5

Illumination problem and absolutely focusing mirrors

Leonid Bunimovich

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Session 4

Experimental tests of radiative transfer incorporating statistical optics using blackbody sources

YuPin Sun ; Roland Winston ; Joseph J. O'Gallagher ; Keith A. Snail

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Session 5

Micromachined optical concentrators for IR negative-luminescent devices

Geoff R. Nash ; Tim Ashley ; Neil T. Gordon ; T. J. Phillips ; C. D. Maxey ; C. L. Jones ; R. A. Catchpole

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Optimal design of a nonimaging projection lens for use with an rf-powered source and a rectangular target

Narkis E. Shatz ; John C. Bortz ; Douglas Kirkpatrick ; Michael Dubinovsky

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Session 6

Efficient light collection for a low-cost respiratory oxygen sensor

Kevin B. Aptowicz ; R. Brian Hooker

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Uniformly illuminating dual-lens system for LED collimation

William A. Parkyn ; David G. Pelka

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Space-habitat illuminators with nonimaging optics

William A. Parkyn

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Frontlighting for a virtual cinema

Miller H. Schuck III ; Philip L. Gleckman

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Nonimaging reflector design techniques of the 1930s: a review of the work of Jolley, Waldram, Wilson, and Halbertsma and how their methods influenced subsequent approaches to reflector design

Waqidi Falicoff

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Session 2

High-uniformity solar concentrators for photovoltaic systems

David G. Jenkins

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