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2015 Proceedings

The proceedings of Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration XII have been published in Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 9572, edited by Roland Winston, and Jeffrey M. Gordon .

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Proceedings at a Glance

8

Sessions

20

Published Papers

Explore the published papers and presentations from the 2015 Nonimaging Optics conference, which was organized on 9-13 August 2015 in San Diego, California, United States.

Papers and Presentations

Front Matter: Volume 9572

Front Matter: Volume 9572

Novel Designs and Core Concepts

String method of nonimaging optics from a radiation theory perspective

Boe Colabewala ; Lun Jiang ; Roland Winston

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Asymmetric design for Compound Elliptical Concentrators (CEC) and its geometric flux implications

Lun Jiang ; Roland Winston

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All fiber actively mode-locked fiber laser emitting cylindrical vector beam

Yong Zhou ; Anting Wang ; Chun Gu ; Lixin Xu ; Qiwen Zhan

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Improved and customized secondary optics for photo-voltaic concentrators

Daniel Vázquez ; A. Álvarez Fernández-Balbuena ; Ángel García-Botella ; Javier Alda

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Solar Concentrators and Systems I

Dielectric totally internally reflecting concentrator structure for vertical bifacial photovoltaic receivers

Elizabeth Thomsen ; Thomas Ratcliff ; Matthew Stocks ; Andrew W. Blakers

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Solar Concentrators and Systems II

Hybrid solar collector using nonimaging optics and photovoltaic components

Roland Winston ; Eli Yablonovitch ; Lun Jiang ; Bennett K. Widyolar ; Mahmoud Abdelhamid ; Gregg Scranton ; David Cygan ; Alexandr Kozlov

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A new optical concentrator design and analysis for rooftop solar applications

Cheng Zheng ; Qiyuan Li ; Gary Rosengarten ; Evatt Hawkes ; Robert A. Taylor

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Self-tracking concentrator based on switchable transparency and rejected-ray recycling

Harry N. Apostoleris ; Matteo Chiesa ; Marco Stefancich

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Design of a solar collector system formed by a Fresnel lens and a CEC coupled to plastic fibers

Perla M. Viera-González ; Guillermo E. Sánchez-Guerrero ; Daniel E. Ceballos-Herrera ; Romeo Selvas-Aguilar

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Solar Concentrators and Systems III

Fundamentally new classes of aplanatic lenses

Heylal Mashaal ; Daniel Feuermann ; Jeffrey M. Gordon

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Illumination and Irradiation Optics

Efficient color mixing through étendue conservation using freeform optics

Simone Sorgato ; Rubén Mohedano ; Julio Chaves ; Aleksandra Cvetkovic ; Maikel Hernández ; Pablo Benitez ; Juan C. Miñano ; Hugo Thienpont ; Fabian Duerr

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Illumination system design with multi-step optimization

Simon Magarill ; William J. Cassarly

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Light extraction method for mixing rods based in grooves with elliptical shape

Guillermo E. Sánchez-Guerrero ; Perla M. Viera-González ; Daniel E. Ceballos-Herrera ; Romeo Selvas-Aguilar

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Étendue-squeezing light injector

Julio C. Chaves ; Simone Sorgato ; Pablo Benitez ; Juan C. Miñano ; Waqidi Falicoff ; Ruben Mohedano

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Freeform Optics

Design of diffractive optical surfaces within the SMS design method

João Mendes-Lopes ; Pablo Benítez ; Juan C. Miñano

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Exact wavefront surface refracted by a smooth arbitrary surface considering a plane wavefront incident

Maximino M. Avendaño-Alejo

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Freeform aplanatic concentrators

B. Narasimhan ; P. Benitez ; Juan C. Miñano ; Julio Chaves ; D. Grabovickic ; Milena Nikolic ; J. Infante

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Non-uniformly sampled grids in double pole coordinate system for freeform reflector construction

Donglin Ma ; Shaun Pacheco ; Zexin Feng ; Rongguang Liang

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Diffraction effects in freeform optics

Melissa N. Ricketts ; Roland Winston ; Vladimir Oliker

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Poster Session

Development of daylighting systems with non-imaging concentrator

Ngoc Hai Vu ; Seoyong Shin

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