Nonimaging Optics

Table of contents

1. Cover image
2. Title page
3. Table of Contents
4. Copyright
5. PREFACE
6. Chapter 1: NONIMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEMS 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 OPTICAL SYSTEMS
10. Chapter 5: DEVELOPMENTS AND MODIFICATIONS OF THE COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATOR
11. Chapter 6: THE FLOW-LINE METHOD FOR DESIGNING NONIMAGING OPTICAL SYSTEMS
12. Chapter 7: CONCENTRATORS FOR PRESCRIBED IRRADIANCE
13. Chapter 8: SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLE SURFACE DESIGN METHOD
14. Chapter 9: IMAGING APPLICATIONS OF NONIMAGING CONCENTRATORS
15. Chapter 10: CONSEQUENCES OF SYMMETRY
16. Chapter 11: GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONCENTRATORS
17. Chapter 12: A PARADIGM FOR A WAVE DESCRIPTION OF OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS
18. Chapter 13: APPLICATIONS TO SOLAR ENERGY CONCENTRATION
19. Chapter 14: MANUFACTURING TOLERANCES
20. APPENDICES
    1. Appendix A: DERIVATION AND EXPLANATION OF THE ÉTENDUE INVARIANT, INCLUDING THE DYNAMICAL ANALOGY; DERIVATION OF THE SKEW INVARIANT
    2. Appendix B: THE EDGE-RAY THEOREM
    3. Appendix C: CONSERVATION OF SKEW AND LINEAR MOMENTUM
    4. Appendix D: CONSERVATION OF ÉTENDUE FOR TWO-PARAMETER BUNDLES OF RAYS
    5. Appendix E: PERFECT OFF-AXIS IMAGING
    6. Appendix F: THE LUNEBURG LENS
    7. Appendix G: THE GEOMETRY OF THE BASIC COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATOR
    8. Appendix H: THE θi/θo CONCENTRATOR
    9. Appendix I: THE TRUNCATED COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATOR
    10. Appendix J: THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION FOR THE 2D CONCENTRATOR PROFILE WITH NONPLANE ABSORBER
    11. Appendix K: SKEW RAYS IN HYPERBOLOIDAL CONCENTRATOR
    12. Appendix L: SINE RELATION FOR HYPERBOLOIDAL/LENS CONCENTRATOR
    13. Appendix M: THE CONCENTRATOR DESIGN FOR SKEW RAYS
21. INDEX