title: Direct design of aspherical lenses for extended non-Lambertian sources in three-dimensional rotational geometry.
abstract: Illumination design used to redistribute the spatial energy distribution of light source is a key technique in lighting applications. However, there is still no effective illumination design method for extended sources, especially for extended non-Lambertian sources. What we present here is to our knowledge the first direct method for extended non-Lambertian sources in three-dimensional (3D) rotational geometry. In this method, both meridional rays and skew rays of the extended source are taken into account to tailor the lens profile in the meridional plane. A set of edge rays and interior rays emitted from the extended source which will take a given direction after the refraction of the aspherical lens are found by the Snell's law, and the output intensity at this direction is then calculated to be the integral of the luminance function of the outgoing rays at this direction. This direct method is effective for both extended non-Lambertian sources and extended Lambertian sources in 3D rotational symmetry, and can directly find a solution to the prescribed design problem without cumbersome iterative illuminance compensation. Two examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method in terms of performance and capacity for tackling complex designs.
authors.forename: Rengmao
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hua
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D007909:Lenses; D055620:Optical Phenomena; D012399:Rotation
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