Nonimaging optics is the theory of thermodynamically efficient optics and as such, depends more on thermodynamics than on optics i often tell my students to learn efficient optical design, first study the theory of furnaces. Nonimaging optics nonimaging optics roland winston university of california, merced, ca juan c. At least one of the first and second elements has an asymmetrical profile, each of the first and second longitudinal elements has a bottom profile including a parabolic surface, portions of opposing surfaces of the first and second. Roland winston, nonimaging optics, scientific american, 2643, 1991. Payloads are usually solar panels, parabolic troughs, fresnel reflectors, lenses or the mirrors of a heliostat. The field of nonimaging optics got its start in the united states in the 1930s in luminary design at lighting companies such as general electric. Roland winston, nonimaging optics, scientific american, 2643, 1991 the applied optics journal regularly publishes articles in the field. Winston joined the university of california at merced as a professor and founding faculty member in. Roland winston, heather poiry university of california, merced solar cooling has long been a desired goal in utilizing the solar resource for the benefit of people. From phasespace considerations, we derive the sine inequality, a generalization of the abbe sine law appropriate to nonimaging systems.
The thermodynamic connection roland winston sinberbest annual meeting for 20. This fully updated, revised, and expanded second edition. Compliance monitoring tools development and implementation. Lowcost dispatchable heat for smallscale solarthermal. Historically, nonimaging optics that work as ideal concentrators have been. Opportunities for collaborative university industry. Us8824051b2 passive louverbased daylighting system.
Nonimaging optics was d2vlop2d to solve a wllposd but narrow s2t of probl2ms1. Welford optics section department of physics imperial college of science, technology and medicine university of london london, england r. Theoretical quantum optics, quantum information processing and quantum simulation in condensed matter systems e. We just hired one of his colleagues from germany here at the institute of. A daylighting system for use in a building including a louver array having a first longitudinal element, and a second longitudinal element spaced therefrom. Winston, high collection nonimaging optics, academic.
Govind agrawal nonimaging optics is very popular in the industry, and the book should do quite well if it is written from the point of view of an engineer. The term nonimaging optics is concerned with applications where imaging formation is not important but where effective and efficient collection, concentration, transport. University of california internal audit manual university of california 12272012. The term nonimaging optics is concerned with applications where imaging formation. University of california merced, 5200 lake rd, merced, ca usa 95343. The applied optics journal regularly publishes articles in the field. Devices to which winstons name has become attached include the. Nonimaging optics isbn 9780127597515 pdf epub pablo g. Nonimaging optics is the theory of thermodynamically efficient optics and as such, depends more on thermodynamics than on optics.
Opportunities for collaborative university industry research in sustainable energy e. Roland winston is a leading figure in the field of nonimaging optics and its applications to solar energy, and is sometimes termed the father of nonimaging optics. Nonimaging optics has been used for detecting cerenkov radiation in a fission reactor in the 1960s. Sep 30, 2010 10 winston roland merced winston roland merced concentrating photovoltaic system using a fresnel lens and nonimaging secondary optics the regents of the university of california yes yes na 10 winston roland merced winston roland merced liquid light pipe with an aplanatic imaging system and coupled non. How research on a uc campus made solar thermal power.
We just hired one of his colleagues from germany here at the institute of optics. A leading figure in the field of nonimaging optics and its applications to solar energy, he is sometimes termed the father of nonimaging optics. Roland barthes is a central figure in the study of language, literature, culture and the media. Introduction to nonimaging optics covers the theoretical foundations and design methods of nonimaging optics, as well as key concepts from related fields.
He is the inventor of the compound parabolic concentrator cpc, used in solar energy, astronomy, and illumination. Nonimaging optics download nonimaging optics ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Roland winston nonimaging optics solar concentration solar cooling solar forecasting. Historically, nonimaging optics that work as ideal concentrators have been discovered through such heuristic ideas as edge ray involutes, string method, simultaneous multiple surface, and tailored edge ray concentrator, without a. May 22, 2008 the worlds insatiable consumption of energy must be met with new technologies that offer alternative, environmentally conscious sources of light and power.
Cerenkov radiation is a weak signal and has a limited angle of emission. Simultaneous calculation of three optical surfaces in the 3d. Traps with a wide range of r 0 from a fraction of a millimeter to several centimeters have been constructed. Roland winston is the expert in this field and should do a very good job. Concentration relation sinf psinq maximum value 1psinq at 900 rim angle. Click download or read online button to nonimaging optics book pdf for free now. Pdf nonimaging optics is the theory of thermodynamically efficient optics and as such. Undergraduate teaching foci the undergraduate majors handled by the physics faculty grant b. Roland winston is a leading figure in the field of nonimaging optics and its applications to solar energy, and is sometimes termed the father of nonimaging. University of california internal audit manual university of california 12272012 page 8 1100 internal audit charter. From the outset, we distinguish between light collection and the usual theory of image formation. Roland winston juan minano pablo benitez with contributions by narkis shatz and john c. Taming light lawrence berkeley national laboratory.
Winston have formed the core of a new technology which carries the promise of making solar energy a truly viable energy source for society. Nonimaging optics design that are functionals of the. Nonimaging optics download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Roland winston well known as the originator of nonimaging optics, he was cofounder and ceo of oec, an optical engineering service which pioneered freeform optics. Nonimaging optics also called anidolic optics is the branch of optics concerned with the optimal transfer of light radiation between a source and a target. Falls short of the fundamental limit by a factor p. Single ions have been trapped with r 0 in traps as large as 5 mm 15, 30, but usually small or miniature traps are used, particularly when very tight confinement is required to reach the lambdicke regime 31.
Features a new and intuitive introduction with a basic description of the advantages. The field did not really begin to take hold, however, until the 1970s when roland winston, then at the physics department of. Roland winston is a professor of natural sciences and engineering. Simultaneous calculation of three optical surfaces in the.
A member of the founding faculty of uc merced, he received a guggenheim fellowship in 1977, and has received numerous other awards and honors for his research. Download pdf nonimaging optics free online new books. He is also a former guggenheim fellow, past head of the university of chicago department of physics, a member of the founding faculty of university of california merced, and as of 20, head of the california advanced solar technol. An efficient solar thermalpowered evaporation system for. Concentration and illumination, osa handbook of optics, 2nd edition, vol 3, chap 2, mcgrawhill, new york 2001.
Nonimaging optics is the theory of thermodynamically efficient optics and as. A good introduction was published by winston, roland. 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. Hirleman, the coupleddipole method for scattering by particles on surfaces using a 2d fft technique, journal of the optical society of america. Spie 1038, 6th mtg in israel on optical engineering, 5 july 1989. Pdf nonimaging optics is the theory of thermodynamically efficient optics and as such, depends more on thermodynamics than on optics. A solar tracker is a device that orients a payload toward the sun. Challenges of the two primary methods for capturing and using sunlight today.
Roland barthes repost free ebooks download ebookee. This book prepares readers for their first encounter with his crucial writings on some of the most important theoretical debates, including. We therefore provide some quantitative comparisons. Roland winston solar power and renewable energy, elementary particle physics, nonimaging optics e. Light collection within the framework of geometrical optics. Nonimaging optics in lighting to reduce light pollution melissa ricketts, jon ferry, lun jiang, roland winston. Uc merced leads uc solar, a multi campus research institute launched in 2010 which includes faculty from physics and engineering as well as faculty from uc berkeley and uc santa barbara. For example, rays collected from the source of diameter ff. Paraboloids of revolution which of course cpcs are not seem a more natural choice to conventional optical physicists as concentrators.
Efficient design for illumination and solar concentration xiiicommemorating the 50th anniversary of nonimaging optics, edited by roland winston, jeffrey m. Roland winston at university of california, merced. He is also a guggenheim fellow, a franklin institute medalist, past head of the university of chicago department of physics, and a member of the founding faculty of. The relatively young field of nonimaging optics is an ideal tool for designing optimized solar energy collectors and illumination optics and holds great promise in the development of solid stat. Unlike traditional imaging optics, the techniques involved do not attempt to form an image of the source. Doublereflector hybrid concentrated solar energy system. The problem of light collection is examined from first principles within the framework of geometrical optics. Jing xu experimental biophysics, quantitative biology, optical trapping, singlemolecule ensemble experiments, molecular motors e. You are cordially invited to join grid alternatives in concluding our 2014 solarthon event week with a presentation on the state of solar by dr. The relatively young field of nonimaging optics is an ideal tool for designing. For flatpanel photovoltaic systems, trackers are used to minimize the angle of incidence between the incoming sunlight and a photovoltaic panel, sometimes known. From its inception nearly 30 years ago, the optical subdiscipline now referred to as nonimaging optics, has experienced dramatic growth.
Roland winston is a leading figure in the field of nonimaging optics and its applications to solar energy. The worlds insatiable consumption of energy must be met with new technologies that offer alternative, environmentally conscious sources of light and power. He is an elected fellow of the optical society of america and the aaas, and is the lead author of the definitive text nonimaging optics 2005. Roland winston well known as the originator of nonimaging optics, he was cofounder and ceo of oec, an optical. Roland winston is a leading expert in nonimaging optics and its applications to solar energy. Winston joined the university of california at merced as a professor and founding faculty member in the schools of natural science and engineering. Among these three earliest works, the one most developed was the american one, resulting in what nonimaging optics is today. Rabl 1976b considered vtroughsthat is, 2d conesand used a wellknown construction e.
Edgeray principle of nonimaging optics article pdf available in journal of the optical society of america a 1110. Winston works in the field and maintains a www nonimaging optics page. Thermodynamic origin of nonimaging optics spie digital library. The properties of the truncated hyperboloid are evident from the preceding discussion. He is the inventor of the compound parabolic concentrator, a breakthrough technology in solar energy. After a stay as visiting scholar at the university of chicago with prof. Larger traps are generally used for clouds of ions. The field did not really begin to take hold, however, until the 1970s when roland winston, then at the physics department of the university of chicago, and now at the university. Devices to which winston s name has become attached include the. Cassarly, spie short courses design of efficient illuminators sc011 and light source modeling sc345. Winston enrico fermi institute and department of physics university of chicago chicago, illinois academic press, inc. Free novapdf 7 lite desktop full version license worth 19. The concepts developed and the devices invented by dr. A prototjpical xampl is th concentration of a light beam with div2rgnc halfangl2 e and crosss2ctional area a1 into th2 minimum possible area a1 without loss of throughput or convrslj, th design of illumination sstms that convert a lambrtian source into a beam with divrg2nc halfangle e and no stray light.