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Welcome
Light does not care
whether you bend and shape metal reflectors or solve a Monge-Ampere
problem (the latter is currently responsible for 90% of all publications but
less than 5% of installations).
Customers don't really care
whether you set up a Poisson bracket in the phase space or you devise a
thin lens from basic laws as long as the specification is fulfilled.
Yes, sometimes there is not even a specs.
Successful Illumination Design
considerably benefits from mastering a wide variety of techniques.
This website is part of some activities of the hosts to bring a few things
closer together :
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Non-imaging optics (mainly solar collection) and other Illumination
design
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Imaging Optics for Illumination
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Freeform and real hardware
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Phase space stuff the omnipresent Étendue, but also Hamiltonian optics
and …
We do care
There are only a few textbooks on illumination optics.
We do work on this issue.
Julius is known for his Courses. And once per year we hold a live course
together in Jena, Germany, and since 2024 we have been teaching the SPIE
1313 short course as well.
Le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.
Fortune favors the prepared mind. (L. Pasteur)