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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.
Le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.
Fortune favors the prepared mind. (L. Pasteur)