Aplanatic Fresnel optics

Heylal Mashaal; Daniel Feuermann; Jeffrey M. Gordon

doi:10.1364/OE.25.00A274

Aplanatic Fresnel optics

Heylal Mashaal, Daniel Feuermann, Jeffrey M. Gordon

The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research

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We provide a general formulation for the design of any dual-surface aplanatic Fresnel optic (including combinations of refractive and reflective surfaces), with categories of devices that had not previously been recognized. Raytrace simulations for representative Fresnel aplanats in collimation (illumination) mode reveal compact designs with radiative efficiencies close to those of their aplanatic continuous non-Fresnel counterparts, and optical performance approaching the thermodynamic limit for radiative transfer.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	A274-A282
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	25
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.00A274
State	Published - 17 Apr 2017

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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