Illumination Engineering Design with Nonimaging Optics [Hardcover]

This book brings together experts in the field who present material on a number of important and growing topics including lighting, displays, solar concentrators. The first chapter provides an overview of the field of nonimagin and illumination optics. Included in this chapter are terminology, units, definitions, and descriptions of the optical components used in illumination systems. The next two chapters provide material within the theoretical domain, including etendue, etendue squeezing, and the skew invariant. The remaining chapters focus on growing applications.

This entire field of nonimaging optics is an evolving field, and the editor plans to update the technological progress every two to three years. The editor, John Koshel, is one of the most prominent leading experts in this field, and he is the right expert to perform the task.

PREFACE xiii

CONTRIBUTORS xvii

GLOSSARY xix

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AND TERMINOLOGY 1

1.1 What Is Illumination? 1

1.2 A Brief History of Illumination Optics 2

1.3 Units 4

1.3.1 Radiometric Quantities 4

1.3.2 Photometric Quantities 6

1.4 Intensity 9

1.5 Illuminance and Irradiance 10

1.6 Luminance and Radiance 11

1.6.1 Lambertian 13

1.6.2 Isotropic 14

1.7 Important Factors in Illumination Design 15

1.7.1 Transfer Effi ciency 15

1.7.2 Uniformity of Illumination Distribution 16

1.8 Standard Optics Used in Illumination Engineering 17

1.8.1 Refractive Optics 18

1.8.2 Refl ective Optics 20

1.8.3 TIR Optics 22

1.8.4 Scattering Optics 24

1.8.5 Hybrid Optics 2lC;