Illumination – Light modifier – Refractor
Patent
1997-09-23
1999-07-20
Sember, Thomas M.
Illumination
Light modifier
Refractor
362335, 362311, 362800, 362249, 362545, F21V 504
Patent
active
059247886
ABSTRACT:
An illumination system with a prescribed output pattern comprising a light source and an optical lens redirecting the light of the source into an output beam, the lens with multiple surfaces at least one of which has a shape that is not a surface of revolution, the shape generated by the following method: on the Gaussian sphere of directions of the output beam exiting the surface of the lens, in accordance with the prescribed output pattern, establish a first grid of equal-flux zones of solid angle; on a portion of the Gaussian sphere of directions of the light emitted from the source into the interior of the lens, establish a second grid with the same number of equal-flux zones of solid angles as the first grid, with a coordinate-system topology congruent with that of the first grid, such that the zones of the second grid are in one-to-one correspondence with the zones of the first grid, with the flux of each zone in proportion to its corresponding zone of the first grid, according to the local transmittance of the lens, with either of both of the grids being rotationally non-symmetric; by this correspondence define a flux-redistributing directional mapping function from the first Gaussian sphere to the second Gaussian sphere, whereby any light ray from the source can be assigned a direction in the output beam, according to the zone of the second grid into which the ray falls, so that the redirected ray falls in the corresponding zone of the first grid; establish one or more lens surfaces to redirect the source rays to the output rays, using the vector laws of refraction or reflection to derive a distribution of normal vectors for each surface; from the distributions of normal vectors, successively generate each lens surface, beginning with that nearest source and going outwards.
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Haefliger William W.
Sember Thomas M.
Teledyne Lighting and Display Products
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