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2009 Proceedings

The proceedings of Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration VI have been published in Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 7423, edited by Roland Winston, and Jeffrey M. Gordon .

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Proceedings at a Glance

9
Sessions
29
Published Papers

Explore the published papers and presentations from the 2009 Nonimaging Optics conference, which was organized on 2-6 August 2009 in San Diego, California, United States.

Papers and Presentations

Front Matter: Volume 7423

Front Matter: Volume 7423

Tailored and Optimized Optics at the Étendue Limit I

Designing freeform reflectors for extended sources

Florian R. Fournier ; William J. Cassarly ; Jannick P. Rolland
Published Paper

Free form V-groove reflector design with the SMS method

Dejan Grabovičkić ; Juan C. Miñano ; Pablo Benítez
Published Paper

Sensitivity to figure error of a freeform refractive beam shaper

Vladimir Oliker
Published Paper

Illumination system design in a project-based course

R. John Koshel ; Vineeth Abraham ; Joshua Kim ; Ron Liu ; Scott Richardson ; Soha Namnabat ; Amber Czajkowski ; Rania H. Abd El-Maksoud ; Ryan Irvin
Published Paper

Novel aplanatic design method

Weiya Zhang ; Roland Winston
Published Paper

Tailored and Optimized Optics at the Étendue Limit II

Field method for concentrator design

Angel Garcia-Botella ; Antonio A. Fernandez-Balbuena ; Daniel Vázquez-Moliní ; Eusebio Bernabeu ; Agustin Gonzalez-Cano
Published Paper

Thermodynamic efficiency of nonimaging concentrators

Narkis Shatz ; John Bortz ; Roland Winston
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Beating the optical Liouville theorem: How does geometrical optics know the second law of thermodynamics?

Roland Winston ; Chunhua Wang ; Weiya Zhang
Published Paper

Tailored and Optimized Optics at the Étendue Limit III

Full landscape of aplanatic optics for concentration near the thermodynamic limit

Natalia Ostroumov ; Jeffrey M. Gordon ; Daniel Feuermann
Published Paper

High-Concentration Solar Optics I

Optical waveguide system for solar power applications in space

Takashi Nakamura
Published Paper

Collimator design for extended sources

Hans Philipp Annen ; Ling Fu ; Ralf Leutz
Published Paper

High-Concentration Solar Optics II

Nonimaging solar thermal collector for high temperature terrestrial and space applications

Michael Mouzouris ; Michael J. Brooks
Published Paper

Development and testing of high concentration flat-plate Fresnel lenses

M. Z. Shvarts ; A. A. Soluyanov
Published Paper

Truncation of the secondary concentrator (CPC) between maximum performances and economical requirements

A. Segal ; M. Epstein
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Solar Daylighting Optics

An optical coupler of natural light guiding system based on stepped structure

Po-Hsuan Pan ; Yi-Yung Chen ; Allen Jong-Woei Whang
Published Paper

Using prismatic structure and brightness enhancement film to design cascadable unit of static solar concentrator in natural light guiding system

Shu-Hua Yang ; Yi-Yung Chen ; Allen Jong-Woei Whang
Published Paper

Recent research on anidolic daylighting systems: highly reflective coating materials and chronobiological properties

Friedrich Linhart ; Stephen K. Wittkopf ; Mirjam Münch ; Jean-Louis Scartezzini
Published Paper

A low-cost rugged solution for solar lighting

A. N. Bharathwaj ; Balaji Srinivasan
Published Paper

LED and Illumination Optics

Improving the color uniformity of a LED-array based illumination system with a tailored light distribution

Youri Meuret ; Lieve Lanoye ; Filip Bruyneel ; Hugo Thienpont
Published Paper

Design and evaluation of natural light guiding system in ecological illumination of traffic tunnel

Cheng-Nan Chen ; Yi-Yung Chen ; Allen Jong-Woei Whang ; Li-Hsien Chen
Published Paper

Pixelated wall washers

Bart A. Salters ; Marcel P. C. M. Krijn
Published Paper

Light source modulation using light guide rods

André Domhardt ; Simon Wendel ; Udo Rohlfing ; Uli Lemmer
Published Paper

Poster Session

High pumping-efficiency and wideband L-band erbium-doped fiber ASE source using two-stage double-pass backward pumping configuration

Benrui Zheng ; Wencai Huang
Published Paper

Skylight: a hollow prismatic CPC

Antonio Alvarez Fernandez-Balbuena ; Daniel Vázquez-Moliní ; Berta Garcia-Fernandez ; Angel Garcia-Botella ; Eusebio Bernabeu
Published Paper

Analysis of a hybrid cost-effective solar lighting system

Xiaoming Shen ; Youming Sun ; Yiming Wei ; Shuiku Zhong ; Fubin Li ; Shuo Lin ; Jiangong Li ; Xianghai Meng ; Yonggang Wang
Published Paper

LED beam shaping using microlens arrays

Yun-Chi Lee ; Hsin-Ta Hsieh ; Wei-Yao Hsu ; Guo-Dung J. Su
Published Paper

Cylindrically symmetric Fresnel lens for high concentration photovoltaic

Yu-Ting Hung ; Guo-Dung Su
Published Paper

Optical design of a new combo solar concentrator

Chung Ping Liu ; Hung Yen Lin ; Chin Tin Hsiao
Published Paper

Generation of uniform illumination using faceted reflectors

Lirong Wang ; José M. Sasián ; Peng Su ; R. John Koshel
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