2014 Proceedings

The proceedings of Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration XI have been published in Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 9191, edited by Roland Winston, and Jeffrey M. Gordon .

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Explore the published papers and presentations from the 2014 Nonimaging Optics conference, which was organized on 17-21 August 2014 in San Diego, California, United States.

Papers and Presentations

Front Matter: Volume 9191

Fundamental Optics and Radiative Transfer

Conditions for perfect focusing multiple point sources with the SMS design method

P. Benítez ; Juan C. Miñano ; Milena Nikolic ; Jiayao Liu ; Jose Infante ; Fabian Duerr

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Thermodynamic limit for coherence-limited solar power conversion

Heylal Mashaal ; Jeffrey M. Gordon

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Excitation of multiple surface-plasmon-polariton waves and waveguide modes in a 1D photonic crystal atop a 2D metal grating

Liu Liu ; Muhammad Faryad ; A. Shoji Hall ; Greg D. Barber ; Sema Erten ; Thomas E. Mallouk ; Akhlesh Lakhtakia ; Theresa S. Mayer

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Illumination Optics

Controlling light with freeform optics: recent progress in computational methods for optical design of freeform lenses with prescribed irradiance properties

Vladimir I. Oliker ; Boris Cherkasskiy

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Tailoring free-form glass reflectors towards a homogeneous luminance distribution in roadway applications

Thomas Heßling ; Ulf Geyer ; Ansgar Hellwig ; Christian Paßlick ; Marc C. Hübner

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Novel Solar and LED Optics

Problems and challenges in non-imaging optics

Roland Winston ; Lun Jiang

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Novel aplanatic designs for LED concentration

Melissa Ricketts ; Roland Winston ; Lun Jiang

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Nonimaging optics heating up Mongolia's harsh winter

Roland Winston ; Bennett Widyolar ; Lun Jiang

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Concentrator Photovoltaics

Switchable transparency optical element for reactive solar tracking

Marco Stefancich ; Harry Apostoleris ; Carlo Maragliano ; Matteo Chiesa

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Angular confinement in solar cells: viable micro-optical designs

Jeffrey M. Gordon ; Daniel Feuermann ; Heylal Mashaal

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Decentralized nonimaging micro-optical concentrator

Tian Gu ; William C. Sweatt ; Gautam Agrawal ; Bradley H. Jared ; Ben J. Anderson ; Ron S. Goeke ; Brenton Elisberg ; Scott M. Paap ; Jose Luis Cruz-Campa

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Luminescent and Holographic Optics

Optimization of a spectrum splitter using differential evolution algorithm for solar cell applications

Li Fan ; Muhammad Faryad ; Greg D. Barber ; Thomas E. Mallouk ; Peter B. Monk ; Akhlesh Lakhtakia

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Daylighting Optics

Light valve based on nonimaging optics with potential application in cold climate greenhouses

Angel A. Valerio ; Michele A. Mossman ; Lorne A. Whitehead

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Experimental study of direct transfer of concentrated solar radiation through optical fibres to high temperature thermal applications

Maryam Rahou ; John Andrews ; Gary Rosengarten

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Solar optical codes evaluation for modeling and analyzing complex solar receiver geometries

Julius Yellowhair ; Jesus D. Ortega ; Joshua M. Christian ; Clifford K. Ho

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Light redirecting system using sine-wave based panels for dense urban areas

Mohamed W. N. Mohamed ; Islam A. Mashaly ; Osama N. Mohamed ; Sally I. El-Henawy ; Ola Galal ; Iman Taha ; Khaled Nassar ; Amr M. E. Safwat

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