Nonimaging optics

With nonimaging optics, it's possible to achieve concentrations of solar energy equal to 80,000 suns!

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Winston, Roland
Other Authors Miñano, Juan C., Benítez, Pablo, 1969-, Welford, W. T.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Burlington, Mass. : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2005.
SeriesOptics and photonics.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781417577439
9780080479736
9780127597515
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xi, 497 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; 1. Nonimaging Optical Systems and Their Uses; 2. Some Basic Ideas in Geometrical Optics; 3. Some Designs of Image-Forming Concentrators; 4. Nonimaging Optical Systems; 5. Developments and Modifications of the Compound Parabolic Concentrator; 6. The Flow-line Method for Designing Nonimaging Optical Systems; 7. Concentrators for Prescribed Irradiance; 8. Simultaneous Multiple Surface Design Method; 9. Imaging Applications of Nonimaging Concentrators; 10. Consequences of Symmetry (by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz).