In this study, we use 30 mini-LED arrays as the light source of the bike lamp. A single reflector with 68 segments to project vehicle low beam and high beam with the use of a GaN-based mini-LED matrix, which is a 30 LED dies array. The design of the reflector is based on light field technology in considering etendue from the light source across the segments. The group of the segments with smaller etendue from the LED dies in the bottom 2 rows are used to project low beams. When the other LED dies are turned on, the reflector will project light upward and form the high beam. The selection of the turn-on LED dies in the mini-LED matrix can adjust the width of the illumination pattern so that an adaptive low/high beam can be performed.
We proposed a novel structure to perform photon recycling for a double-light-source illumination system pumped by a laser. In the design, two kinds of phosphor are located at the two focus of an elliptical reflective surface separately, after the phosphor on the first focus pumped by laser, the backward scattering light will refocus at the other phosphor layer at the second focus. The absorption spectrum of the second phosphor should fit that of the emission light by the first phosphor. When the emission spectrum covers red light, the whole system is a double-light-source module.
Bidirectional scattering distribution function (BSDF) represents the scattered light distribution in forward and backward directions. BSDF is an important function in precise lighting design, because surface scattering is difficult to determine and including it in simulations. However, to measure a whole field BSDF is time consuming, as it can take as long as a day. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a new way to measure BSDF. We utilize a screen that is illuminated by the scattered light, and a camera that captures the image on the screen. A complex calibration between the grey level of the camera and intensity is performed to make sure the measurement is valid. Through continuously imaging the screen for various scattered light distributions, an image fusion is performed to present the final BSDF. We call this instrument as screen image synthesis (SIS) BSDF meter. In this paper, two generations of SIS BSDF meter was developed, and is shown in details.
In this paper, an efficient lighting design for indoor sport field is presented. The average illuminance for the indoor sport field with eight playing courts can be achieve to 500 lx at a 11.2 m of the lamp's mounting height. Besides, because of specific arrangement of luminaires, the proposed lighting design can effectively reduced the glare effect and provide a comfortable illumination to players.
Two optical designs for marine beacon based on Direct In-line Package (DIP) LED is proposed and demonstrated. The luminous intensity of the marine beacon using DIP LED can achieve to the IALA recommendation’s requirement of 5 nautical miles. The measurement of color coordinates can also fit the IALA recommendation’s requirement. By the surface-structured TIR lens, we successfully keep the divergence angle to 68 degrees in the horizontal direction and converge to 8 degrees in the vertical direction.
A novel method to stabilize the correlated color temperature in pc-WLEDs from their initial turn-on state to thermal equilibrium is proposed and demonstrated. Under the normal operation condition, it can stabilize the CCT of a pc-WLED by the positive matching of the blue LED peak wavelength to the phosphor excitation spectrum. In the experiments, the CCT variation could be as small as from 7 K to 83 K in different cases. In addition, this study also proposed a practical approach for measuring phosphor temperature in an operating pc- WLED using a noncontact, instant detection method to remotely monitor the emission spectrum. The approach is also independent of the peak wavelength of pumping lights, the concentration and thickness of phosphor, and correlated color temperatures. Firstly, a novel method to stabilize the correlated color temperature in pc-WLEDs from their initial turn-on state to thermal equilibrium is proposed and demonstrated. In the experiments, the CCT variation could be as small as from 7 K to 83 K in different cases. Secondly, this study also proposed a practical approach for measuring phosphor temperature in an operating pc-WLED using a noncontact, instant detection method. The approach is also independent of the peak wavelength of pumping lights, the concentration and thickness of phosphor, and correlated color temperatures.
In this thesis, on the basis of the phosphor optical models, green and red phosphor mixture optical model has been well established. Under some specific green to red phosphor doping proportions, this model can be utilized to simulate the chromatic properties, spatial CCT distributions, and packaging efficiency. There are some benefits of applying the phosphor optical model, one is that the confusion about mixture or layer phosphor configuration can perform better could be solved. Another is that the comparison and analysis of these phosphor configurations can be made not only in experiment but also in simulation, and will be more details to be discuss in the simulation. There are several types of packaging structures in high color quality applications. Consequently, the importance of phosphor optical model cannot be overestimated. After few steps above and with the help of experimental analysis and optimized in simulation, a packaging structure with high color quality and high efficiency has been approved. Finally, this light source with high performance will be utilized in the luminaire to improve the color and energy saving properties.
In this paper, we present a luminaire design with anti-glare and energy-saving effects for sports hall. Compared with traditional lamps using in a badminton court, the average illuminance on the ground of the proposed LED luminaire is enhanced about 300%. Besides, the uniformity is obviously enhanced and improved. The switch-on speed of lighting in sports hall is greatly reduced from 5-10 minutes to 1 second. The simulation analysis and the corresponding experiment results are demonstrated.
In this study, a low glare and high-efficient tunnel lighting design which consists of a cluster light-emitting diode and a
free-form lens is presented. Most of the energy emitted from the proposed luminaire is transmitted onto the surface of
the road in front of drivers, and the probability that the energy is emitted directly into drivers’ eyes is low. Compared
with traditional fluorescent lamps, the proposed luminaire, of which the optical utilization factor, optical efficiency, and
uniformity are, respectively, 44%, 92.5%, and 0.72, performs favorably in traffic safety, energy saving, and glare
reduction.
A planar-exit lighting surface is not only used in the luminaires but also useful in the display backlights and other
illumination systems. Most planar-exit lighting surfaces are made by edge-lit with line light source or 1-D LED array. If
it is not edge-lit type, the light source can be two-dimensional, but a cavity is required. In this paper, a high-efficiency
cavity providing extremely high energy transmittance with photon recycling is reported and demonstrated. The cavity
contains a diffuser and the high reflectivity surfaces. The optical efficiency of the cavity is calculated by a formula with
considering photon recycling. Furthermore, various kinds of diffusers are applied to change the optical transmittance as
well as the light pattern. When the reflectivity of the inner wall of the lighting cavity is about 96 %, the optical efficiency
of the cavity is higher than 90 % with several diffusers. The experimental measurement as well as the calculation is
demonstrated in the paper.
An energy saving LED luminaire for agricultural lighting is presented in this paper. To improve the traditional
agricultural lightings, the beam shaping technology is required. The LED luminaire is composed of three parts,
LEDs, collimator, and micro-lens diffuser. In this paper, the advantages of the LED luminaire are obvious,
including uniform and energy saving. With a comparison for traditional agricultural lightings, the LED
luminaire can save 63 % in energy consumption.
In the paper, we present a design of street light with use of a TIR lens and a specific diffuser of micro-lens array. In the
illumination area of 39 m × 16.4 m, the power, output flux and the efficiency of the street light on the target area are
about 160 W, 10530 lm and 85 %, respectively, and the uniformity reaches 1/1.64.
A two-channel demultiplexer with channel spacing 1nm and the bandwidth around 1nm is demonstrated. The demultiplexer device is established based on cascaded holographic filters. Each filter addresses a channel. Each filter is established by constructing a single volume holographic gating in a single LiNbO3 crystal and it drops the light from a specific DWDM channel (wavelengths of ~1550nm) with 90-degree geometry. Volume holographic gratings in photorefractive material have been applied to demultiplexer devices in DWDM systems owing to the narrow spectral selectivity. However, when channel numbers in a volume hologram is increased, we have to store more holographic gratings in this recording medium. Thus, the diffraction efficiency of each channel will decrease because all the gratings share the dynamic range of the recording material. In our design, the dynamic range can be efficiently used and thus the diffraction intensities of each channel can be increased. In addition, the device could be compact owing to the 90-degree geometry. In this device, we can increase the channel number by cascading another different filter.
Multilayer storage in a shift-multiplexed holographic disk is proposed. An optical head comprising a fiber array is used for multiplayer storage in a LiNbO3 holographic disk. High longitudinal selectivity of spherical reference waves is obtained and permits the implementation of multiplayer storage in the hologram. The technique yields the efficient usage of dynamic range and promotes the storage capacity potentially.
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