Nonimaging Optics

by Roland Winston, Juan C. Minano, Pablo G. Benitez

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

512 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2004

About the author

Roland Winston was an American scientist who was a leading figure in the field of nonimaging optics and its applications to solar energy, and is sometimes termed the "father of non-imaging optics". He was the inventor of the compound parabolic concentrator (CPC), a breakthrough technology in solar energy. He was 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. He was nominated as head of the California Advanced Solar Technologies Institute in 2013.
Winston held more than 25 patents, chiefly related to solar energy, and has been figuratively said to have a "patent on the sun".