Nonimaging Optics Conference

All proceedings

2019 Proceedings

The proceedings of Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration XVI have been published in Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 11120, edited by Roland Winston, and Eli Yablonovitch .

View the whole volume through SPIE Digital Library

Proceedings at a Glance

8

Sessions

17

Published Papers

13

Recorded Presentations

Explore the published papers and presentations from the 2019 Nonimaging Optics conference, which was organized on 11-15 August 2019 in San Diego, California, United States.

Papers and Presentations

Front Matter: Volume 11120

Front Matter: Volume 11120

Advanced Development

Practical challenges towards 50% efficient thermophotovoltaic energy conversion

Zunaid Omair ; Luis M. Pazon-Outon ; Eli Yablonovitch

Published Paper

Recorded Presentation

Advances in Raman-based broadband optical refrigeration

Reid Vorbach ; Russell Lochrie ; Kenneth Sobablo ; Mostafa Sadoqi ; C. M. Fortmann

Published Paper

Recorded Presentation

High concentration parabolic trough solar collector with novel secondary reflector in the vacuum receiver

Yogesh Bhusal ; Bennett Widyolar ; Lun Jiang ; Jonathan Ferry ; Jordyn Brinkley ; Roland Winston

Published Paper

Concentrator Designs

Implementation of a qualitative test for a Fresnel lens

Maximino Avendaño-Alejo ; Martín Jiménez-Rodríguez ; Gabriel Castillo-Santiago ; María C. López-Bautista

Published Paper

Recorded Presentation

Low cost dispatchable heat for small scale solar thermal desalination systems (Conference Presentation)

Jordyn T. Brinkley

Recorded Presentation

Numerical and Freeform Methods

Numerical flowline concentrator design in 3D

Alex G. Lehmann ; Nicholas Ekins-Daukes ; Mark Keevers

Published Paper

Recorded Presentation

Pushing the limits of beam-steering lens arrays

Håkon J. D. Johnsen ; Astrid Aksnes ; Jan Torgersen

Published Paper

Recorded Presentation

Advances in flowline simulations

Ángel García-Botella ; Lun Jiang ; Roland Winston

Published Paper

Recorded Presentation

Solar Applications

Nonimaging solar collectors toward net-zero GHG emission

Bennett K. Widyolar ; Lun Jiang ; Jonathan Ferry ; Jordyn Brinkley ; Yogesh Bhusal ; Roland Winston

Published Paper

Aplanatic beam-down solar towers

Jeffrey M. Gordon ; Daniel Feuermann

Published Paper

Recorded Presentation

Beyond the grid: the promise of solar concentration for non-electrical energy generation

Harry Apostoleris ; Matteo Chiesa

Published Paper

Recorded Presentation

New Concepts

Simple analytical model for optical efficiency of an energy-harvesting projector

Ichiro Fujieda ; Yasuhiro Tsutsumi ; Kohei Yunoki ; Yoshiki Yamada

Published Paper

Recorded Presentation

Gauge invariance in flow line optics (Conference Presentation)

Roland Winston ; Lun Jiang

Recorded Presentation

The vector potential of flow line and nonimaging optics (Conference Presentation)

Lun Jiang ; Roland Winston ; Ángel G. Botella

Recorded Presentation

Illumination

Improved solar illumination collection using holographic light management techniques

Jianbo Zhao ; Benjamin Chrysler ; Sam Tan ; Raymond K. Kostuk

Published Paper

Recorded Presentation

Evolutionary optimization algorithms for nonimaging optical design

Ángel García-Botella ; Daniel Vázquez-Moliní ; Berta Garcia-Fernandez ; Antonio Álvarez Fernandez-Balbuena

Published Paper

Posters-Monday

Optical design for LED illumination in application of implantable retinal prostheses

Ting-Ming Huang ; Fong-Zhi Chen ; Chin-Fong Chiu ; Chung-Yu Wu

Published Paper

Efficient and sustainable energy lighting solutions

Angel García-Botella ; Daniel Vázquez-Moliní ; Berta Garcia-Fernandez ; Antonio-Álvarez Fernandez-Balbuena

Published Paper

Developments for lighting applications by using prismatic film

Berta García-Fernández ; Antonio Álvarez Fernández-Balbuena ; Daniel Vázquez-Moliní

Published Paper

Design and testing of a Fresnel mirror for solar energy

Martín Jiménez-Rodríguez ; Maximino Avendaño-Alejo ; María C. López-Bautista ; Gabriel Castillo-Santiago ; Fabiola Méndez Arriaga ; Rafael Almanza-Salgado ; Filiberto Gutiérrez-Martínez

Published Paper

2020 Proceedings 2018 Proceedings