The flowline or winstonwelford design method typically leads to optics which guide. Nonimaging optics nonimaging opticsroland winston university of california, merced, cajuan c. Roland winston is a leading expert in nonimaging optics and its applications to solar energy. Lowcost dispatchable heat for smallscale solarthermal. Of bandmusic pdf library, nonimaging optics winston pdf inc, the free online library of band sheet music from the. 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 state lighting applications. He is an elected fellow of the optical society of america and the aaas, and is the lead author of the definitive text nonimaging optics 2005. Jul 01, 20 basics of opical imaging non imaging optics slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. Nonimaging optics design that are functionals of the. Nonimaging optics departs from the methods of traditional optical design by instead developing techniques for. Features a new and intuitive introduction with a basic description of the advantages of nonimaging opticsadds new chapters on wavefronts for a prescribed output irradiance or intensity, infinitesimal etendue optics generalization of the aplanatic optics, and kohler optics and color. Winston r and koshel tj eds nonimaging optics and efficient illumination systems ii, spie proc. Unlike traditional imaging optics, the techniques involved do not attempt to form an image of the source.
Features a new and intuitive introduction with a basic description of the advantages. Nonimaging optics departs from the methods of traditional optical design to develop instead techniques for maximizing the collecting power of concentrating. Fold mirrors ucsd photonics inexpensive, planar reflective structures. Winston is considered the father of nonimaging optics, and his invention, the compound parabolic collector cpc, is sometimes known as the winston solar collector. In principle, the second law of thermodynamics permits an optical device to. Pdf nonimaging optics is the theory of thermodynamically efficient optics and as such, depends more on thermodynamics than on optics. Ray tracing of the nonimaging optics design concentrator designed to be efficient with wide angle. Govind agrawal nonimaging optics is very popular in the industry, and the book should do quite well if it is written from the point of view of an engineer.
An optimized nonimaging optics example the flux at the surface of the sun, 6. Iii nonimaging optics for flux concentration sciencedirect. The book shows the reader how to find his or her own optical solution using the rules and methodologies covering the design and the assessment of the nonimaging lens. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. Free novapdf 7 lite desktop full version license worth 19. Nonimaging optical designs are 3d printed, retrofitted into the candidate fixture, and tested in yosemite national park. The field of nonimaging optics got its start in the united states in the 1930s in luminary design at lighting companies such as general electric. Introduction to nonimaging optics optical science and. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Nonimaging optics has been used for detecting cerenkov radiation in a fission reactor in the 1960s. Nonimaging optics is the theory of thermodynamically efficient optics and as such, depends more on thermodynamics than on optics. Benitez, nonimaging optics, elsevier academic press 2004.
Using nonimaging optics and light emitting diodes leds, light can be controlled to achieve a desired prescribed illumination distribution. A natural question is whether maxwells equations, and more general wavescattering physics, exhibit related conservation laws. Highperformance kohler concentrators with uniform irradiance on solar cell. Basic optical concepts 1 graduate school of tsinghua university a basic introduction to optical imaging tayyab farooq graduate school of tsinghua university shenzhen, p. Designs which exceed the concentration attainable with focusing techniques by factors of four or more and approach the theoretical limit are possible ideal concentrators. Alternatively, you can add nobotsdenyinternetarchivebot to keep me off the page altogether. This fully updated, revised, and expanded second edition.
We just hired one of his colleagues from germany here at the institute of. Nice theoretical book that can be found online via ua libraries j. Historically, nonimaging optics that work as ideal concentrators have been discovered through such heuristic ideas as edge ray involutes, string method, simultaneous multiple surface. The field did not really begin to take hold, however, until the 1970s when roland winston, then at the physics department of the university of chicago, and now at the university. Winstons attention is focused on developing highly efficient and. Pdf nonimaging optics is the theory of thermodynamically efficient optics and as such. Introduction to nonimaging optics chaves, julio download. Argonne national laboratory in the usa by hinterberger and winston 182. Chaves, introduction to nonimaging optics, crc press 2008.
Nonimaging optics is the theory of thermodynamically efficient optics and as such, depends more on thermodynamics than on optics i often tell my students to learn efficient optical design, first study the theory of furnaces. A leading figure in the field of nonimaging optics and its applications to solar energy, he is sometimes termed the father of nonimaging optics. The relatively young field of nonimaging optics is an ideal tool for designing. Introduction to nonimaging optics covers the theoretical foundations and design methods of nonimaging optics, as well as key concepts from related fields.
What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page. The nonimaging optical system, by definition, does not produce an image of the. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Nonimaging optics also called anidolic optics is the branch of optics concerned with the.
A prototjpical xampl is th concentration of a light beam with div2rgnc halfangl2 e and crosss2ctional area a1 into th2 minimum possible area a1 without loss of throughput or convrslj, th design of illumination sstms that convert a lambrtian source into a beam with divrg2nc halfangle e and no stray light. The fraction aeff of the incident light absorbed satisfies the inequality 7. Falls short of the fundamental limit by a factor p. Gerardo diaz, roland winston, lun jiang school of engineering, university of california, merced uc davis, may 2, 20. Roland winston is a professor of natural sciences and engineering. The term nonimaging optics is concerned with applications where imaging formation is not important but where effective and efficient collection, concentration, transport and distribution of light energy is i. From its inception nearly 30 years ago, the optical subdiscipline now referred to as nonimaging optics, has experienced dramatic growth. You are cordially invited to join grid alternatives in concluding our 2014 solarthon event week with a presentation on the state of solar by dr.
After a stay as visiting scholar at the university of chicago with prof. Diffractive flat panel solar concentrators of a novel design. Nonimaging optics was d2vlop2d to solve a wllposd but narrow s2t of probl2ms1. Efficient design for illumination and solar concentration xiiicommemorating the 50th anniversary of nonimaging optics, edited by roland winston, jeffrey m. A member of the founding faculty of uc merced, he received a guggenheim fellowship in 1977, and has received numerous other awards and honors for his research. The term nonimaging optics is concerned with applications where imaging formation is not important but where effective and efficient collection, concentration, transport and distribution of light. Yet a generalization to electromagnetic radiance is not possible, as coherent wave interference can yield dramatic radiance enhancements. We just hired one of his colleagues from germany here at the institute of optics. Nonimaging optics in lighting to reduce light pollution melissa ricketts, jon ferry, lun jiang, roland winston. Nonimaging optics isbn 9780127597515 pdf epub pablo g.
Park is the founding director of north royalton community band in which. Concentration relation sinf psinq maximum value 1psinq at 900 rim angle. Roland winston well known as the originator of nonimaging optics, he was cofounder and ceo of oec, an optical. Cerenkov radiation is a weak signal and has a limited angle of emission. Roland winston is the expert in this field and should do a very good job. As is wellknown, the solar spectrum fits a black body at 5670 k almost 10,000 degrees fahrenheit now a black body absorbs radiation at all wavelengths, and it follows from thermodynamics that its spectrum the planck spectrum1 is uniquely specified by temperature. Roland winston at university of california, merced. Nonimaging optics 7 a few observations suffice to establish the connection. Purchase high collection nonimaging optics 1st edition. The worlds 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. High collection nonimaging optics spie digital library. Introduction to nonimaging optics introduction to nonimaging opticsprovides the first entrylevel resource on this rapidly.
Welford optics section department of physics imperial college of science, technology and medicine university of london london, england r. Hello fellow wikipedians, i have just added archive links to one external link on nonimaging optics. Surfacerelief and polarization gratings for solar concentrators ties m. His band and ensemble no objection certificate sample pdf no exit sartre pdf music is published by band music press, jpm. May 22, 2008 the worlds insatiable consumption of energy must be met with new technologies that offer alternative, environmentally conscious sources of light and power. Nonimaging optics pdf adobe drm can be read on any device that can open pdf adobe drm files. Doublereflector hybrid concentrated solar energy system. Fold mirrors ucsd photonics inexpensive, planar reflective structures minimize gap losses between cellsmodules low concentration 1. Polymer optical fiber compound parabolic concentrator tip. Winston enrico fermi institute and department of physics university of chicago chicago, illinois academic press, inc. Winstons attention is focused on developing highly efficient and affordable solutions to real problems. The reader is introduced to the principles, theories, and advantages of nonimaging optics from the standpoint of concentrating sunlight the solar concentrator idea. Nonimaging optics also called anidolic optics is the branch of optics concerned with the optimal transfer of light radiation between a source and a target.
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