High Collection Nonimaging Optics
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High Collection Nonimaging Optics

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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High Collection Nonimaging Optics

About this book

High Collection Nonimaging Optics covers the many developments and the wider range of applications of nonimaging optics. This book is organized into 11 chapters that emphasize the application of nonimaging optics to concentrators for solar energy. This text begins with discussions on the development of formalisms in nonimaging optics, specifically in the use of geometrical vector flux concept, which have led to entirely different concentrator designs. These topics are followed by a description of the so-called compound parabolic concentrator, the prototype of a series of nonimaging concentrators that approach very close to being ideal and having the maximum theoretical concentration ratio. The next chapters examine the concept of the flow line approach to nonimaging concentration; the geometrical optics model of nonimaging optics; and constructional tolerances and manufacturing methods for nonimaging optical components. A chapter highlights the applications of concentrator designs to solar energy concentrations. The last chapter surveys the applications of nonimaging optics to optical system design and to instrument design, with particular reference to utilization of light sources with maximum efficiency. This book will be of great benefit to nonimaging optics scientists and design engineers.

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780127428857
eBook ISBN
9780323157230
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Optics & Light

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. High Collection Nonimaging Optics
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1. Concentrators and Their Uses
  7. Chapter 2. Some Basic Ideas in Geometrical Optics
  8. Chapter 3. Some Designs of Image-Forming Concentrators
  9. Chapter 4. Nonimaging Concentrators: The Compound Parabolic Concentrator
  10. Chapter 5. Developments and Modifications of the Basic Compound Parabolic Concentrator
  11. Chapter 6. Developments of the Compound Parabolic Concentrator for Nonplane Absorbers
  12. Chapter 7. Flow line Approach to Nonimaging Concentration
  13. Chapter 8. Physical Optics Aspects of Concentrators and Collectors
  14. Chapter 9. Shape Tolerances and Manufacturing Methods for Nonimaging Optical Components
  15. Chapter 10. Applications to Solar Energy Concentration
  16. Chapter 11. Illumination of Optical Systems and Instruments
  17. Appendix A: Derivation and Explanation of the Etendue Invariant, Including the Dynamical Analogy; Derivation of the Skew Invariant A.l The Generalized Etendue
  18. Appendix B: The Impossibility of Designing a "Perfect" Imaging Optical System: The Corresponding Nonimaging Problem
  19. Appendix C: The Luneburg Lens
  20. Appendix D: The Geometry of the Basic Compound Parabolic Concentrator
  21. Appendix E: The θi|/θo Concentrator
  22. Appendix F: The Concentrator Design for Skew Rays
  23. Appendix G: The Truncated Compound Parabolic Concentrator
  24. Appendix H: The Differential Equation for the 2D Concentrator Profile with Nonplane Absorber
  25. Appendix I: Deriving a Formula for Generalized Radiance
  26. Appendix J: Skew Rays in Hyperboloid Concentrator
  27. Appendix K: Sine Relation for Hyperboloid/Lens Concentrator
  28. References
  29. Index