Design of freeform illumination optics

R Wu, Z Feng, Z Zheng, R Liang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Freeform optics constitutes a new technology that is currently driving substantial changes in
illumination design. It liberates designers and engineers from restrictions of optical surface …

Improvement of thermochemical processes of laser-matter interaction and optical systems for wavefront shaping

SP Murzin - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Laser thermochemical processes of metal surface oxidation are promising for creating new
advanced technologies to meet the growing needs of opto-and micro-electronics, photonics …

Linear assignment problem in the design of freeform refractive optical elements generating prescribed irradiance distributions

DA Bykov, LL Doskolovich, AA Mingazov, EA Bezus… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We consider the problem of calculating the eikonal function defined on a certain curved
surface from the condition of generating a prescribed irradiance distribution on a target …

Freeform microlens array homogenizer for excimer laser beam shaping

Y Jin, A Hassan, Y Jiang - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We presented a novel technique to design microlens optical beam homogenizing system for
excimer lasers. As a new approach by applying freeform surface microlens array, the …

Ray mapping approach for the efficient design of continuous freeform surfaces

C Bösel, H Gross - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The efficient design of continuous freeform surfaces, which maps a given light source to an
arbitrary target illumination pattern, remains a challenging problem and is considered here …

Precise light control in highly tilted geometry by freeform illumination optics

R Wu, L Yang, Z Ding, L Zhao, D Wang, K Li, F Wu… - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The control of light propagation in highly tilted geometry by freeform illumination optics has
numerous applications. However, difficulties associated with the tailoring of freeform …

Extended ray-mapping method based on differentiable ray-tracing for non-paraxial and off-axis freeform illumination lens design

H Wang, Y Luo, H Li, Z Zang, Y Xu, Y Han, C Sun… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The ray-mapping method has been widely used for designing freeform illumination lenses.
However, in non-paraxial or off-axis situations, it remains challenging to obtain an integrable …

Optimal mass transportation and linear assignment problems in the design of freeform refractive optical elements generating far-field irradiance distributions

LL Doskolovich, DA Bykov, AA Mingazov, EA Bezus - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We consider the problem of calculating a refractive surface generating a prescribed
irradiance distribution in the far field in the case of a point light source. We show that this …

Unified mathematical framework for a class of fundamental freeform optical systems

MJH Anthonissen, LB Romijn… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We present a unified mathematical framework for sixteen fundamental optical systems. The
systems have a parallel or point source and a parallel, point, near-field or far-field target …

Iterative wavefront tailoring to simplify freeform optical design for prescribed irradiance

Z Feng, D Cheng, Y Wang - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The direct formulation of a freeform optical surface for producing a prescribed irradiance
from a point source is very complicated. Instead of directly determining the freeform optical …