ABSTRACT

The world's insatiable consumption of energy must be met with new technologies that offer alternative, environmentally conscious sources of light and power. The relatively young field of nonimaging optics is an ideal tool for designing optimized solar energy collectors and illumination optics and holds great promise in the development of solid stat

part |2 pages

Part I Nonimaging Optics

chapter 1|22 pages

Fundamental Concepts

chapter 2|30 pages

Design of Two-Dimensional Concentrators

chapter 4|22 pages

Chapteer 4. Vector Flux

chapter 6|18 pages

Stepped Flow-Line Nonimaging Optics

chapter 7|60 pages

Luminaires

part |2 pages

Part II Geometrical Optics

chapter 11|14 pages

Rays and Wave Fronts

chapter 12|12 pages

Reflection and Refraction

chapter 13|16 pages

Symmetry

chapter 14|8 pages

Étendue in Phase Space

chapter 15|8 pages

Classical Mechanics and Geometrical Optics

chapter 17|46 pages

Plane Curves