Introduction to Non-imaging Optics Design: From Fundamentals to Applications

Filling a gap between too high-level, bulky academic books and technical articles in optics and photonic journals, this is an accessible textbook and tutorial for students and lecturers, as well as practitioners, designers, physicists, engineers and architects in the field of optics and illumination/non-imaging optics. As such, it covers all the basic and applied problems for the illumination optics community, including luminaire and lighting design from traditional light sources to LED, via optical platforms such as reflectors, condenser lens and lenlets array, lightpipe, and Fresnel lens. Using this approach readers learn the basic blocks for integration for later applications and development, while common schemes of illumination and classical illumination schemes are illustrated to provide simplified and well-proven approaches to creating initial designs and handling complex applications efficiently. The text also features end-of-chapter summaries and problems sets, appendices on patents, and a glossary, while a dedicated ftp site provides colored figures and TracePro/LightTools/ASAP codes.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION, FLUX, AND THROUGHPUT ESTIMATE Before Starting - Something Important That Should be Adressed Making List of Specification The Difference Between Imaging and Non-Imaging Optics From Search Light to Edgy Ray Principle From Single Ray to Ray Bundle (Etendue) Throughput Estimates Characterization of Flux: Radiometry and Photometry More on Illumination Design Summary Exercises COLOR, LUMINANCE AND RENDERING How Color be Recognized How to Characterize: CIE Standards Color Temperature and Correlated Color Temperature Color-Luminance Difference Rendering and Color Rendering Index, CRI Photorealistic Rendering Summary Exercises SCATTERING AND ITS CORRESPONDENCE TO ILLUMINATION Basic Formalism of Scattering Optical Property of Bulk Materials Optical Property of Surfaces Phong Model Mechanisms of Scattering by Particle Scatter Models Fitting with Experimental Data Summary Exercises ILLUMINATION SOURCES Classification and Characterization - Coherent and Incoherent Illumination - Lambertian and Non-Lamberian Source - Point-Like and Extended Sources Examples - Sun Light - Lamps - LEDs - Lasers Source Modeling Summary Exercises ILLUMINATION SCHEMES Lens-Based Illumination Systems Common Approaches That Being Applied - Diffusing Light (Front and Axial) - Structured Light - Dark-Field Lighting - Back-Lighting - Polarizing Light Classical Illumination Schemes - Abbe (Critical) Illumination - Kohler Illumination - Rantsch Illumination Summary Exercises ILLUMINATION DESIGN WITH REFLECTORS Survey of Applications Basic Theory of Reflector for Illumination General Procedure of Design Optimization Tolerancing Design Examples Advanced Theory of Reflectors Applications to LED Lighting Applications to Solar Concentrator Summary Exercises CONDENSORS, LENSLET ARRAY AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO ILLUMINATION Survey of Applications Basic Theory of Lens Theory for Illumination General Procedure of Design Optimization Tolerancing Design Examples Application to Solar Concentrators Summary Exercises LIGHTPIPE AND ITS APPLICATION TO ILLUMINATION Survey of Applications Basic Theory of Lightpipe for Illumination General Procedure of Design Optimization Tolerancing Design Examples Application to Solar Concentrators Summary Exercises COMPACT DESIGN WITH FRESNEL LENS Survey of Applications Basic Theory of Fresnel Lens for Illumination General Procedure of Design Optimization Tolerancing Design Examples Application to Solar Concentrators Summary Exercises MEASUREMENT, TESTING AND SIMULATION VERIFICATION Measurement and Testing on Flux Measurement and Testing on Color Measurement and Testing on CRI IES File and Its Applications Summary Exercises INTEGRATED SYSTEM DESIGN AND LIGHTING APPLICATION General Survey Characterization of Illumination Efficiency Light Control Elements and Accessories Applications to Outdoor Lighting Applications to Indoor Lighting Lighting for Complex Environments Summary Exercises SELECTED ILLUMINATION DESIGNS, ANALYZED AND ANNOTATED Introduction Data-Table Ray-Trace Figures Illumination Map and Energy Efficiency Index Index to the Designs Summary Exercises APPENDIX A: PATENT LITERATURE ANALYSIS OF ILLUMINATION APPENDIX B: BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY An ftp site will be associated with the book to include additional material such as colored figures, problemes and solutions and codes.

About the Author :
Prof. Jyh-Long Chern is a professor at the Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, where he has been teaching courses in optical system designs, lens design and illumination optics design since joining in 2001. He is also chief technical fellow and vice president for LED lighting products, and act as the Head of R&D operations. He has served as a consultant to many optics companies and research institutes. He received his Ph.D. in Optical Sciences from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Basic Research Laboratory, NTT, Japan. Before joining NCTU, he stayed at the National Sun Yet University and the National Cheng Kung University at the faculty of physics. He has published 90 journal papers.