Nonimaging optics

From its inception nearly 30 years ago, the optical subdiscipline now referred to as nonimaging optics, has experienced dramatic growth. 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.e. solar energy conversion, signal detection, illumination optics, measurement and testing. This book will incorporate the substantial developments of the past decade in this field. * Includes all substantial developments of the past decade in the rapidly moving field of nonimaging optics * The only authoritative reference on nonimaging optics, from the leader in the field "This book asks the reader to suspend conventional imaging notions to consider instead an analogy with fluid dynamics. Light is conceptualized as an incompressible fluid flow in phase space, or etendue. This book is a must for engineers and physicists, both student and professional, who seek to design optical systems that operate at the etendue limit of performance."--BOOK JACKET With Nonimaging Optics, It's Possible To Achieve Concentrations Of Solar Energy Equal To 80,000 Suns!