INDEX

A

Abbe, Ernst, 27, 28

Abbe sine condition, 28, 36, 40, 223

Aberations, 2, 28–34, 38, 40, 55, 65, 84, 85, 97, 107

chromatic, 33, 441, 97

spherical, 28, 35, 40, 223

Acceptance figure, 73

Acceptance, See Etendue

achromatic design, 441

Afocal concentrator, See Telescopic

Airy-diffraction, 306

anidolic, 2

Aplanatic spherical lens, 38

Aplanatism, 28, 223, 449

Archemedes, 1

axiom of inverse engineering, 274

B

beam shaping, 268

Biological analog of the Compound Parabolic Concentrator, 6

Brightness, See radiance

broken symmetry, 288–303

Bundle-coupling design problem, 159

canonical system, 235, 266

Cartesian oval, 185, 186

generalized, 185

Cartesian oval curves, 172, 449

Caustic, 84, 335

CCD camera, 268

Cerenkov ...

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