Nonimaging Optics [Hardcover]

Roland Winston (Author), Juan C. Minano (Author), Pablo G. Benitez (Author), With contributions by Narkis Shatz and John C. Bortz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 5, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0127597514 | ISBN-13: 978-0127597515 | Edition: 1

From its inception nearly 30 years ago, the optical subdiscipline now referred to as nonimaging optics, has experienced dramatic growth. The term nonimaging optics is concerned with applications where imaging formation is not important but where effective and efficient collection , concentration, transport and distribution of light energy is - i.e. solar energy conversion, signal detection, illumination optics, measurement and testing. This book will incorporate the substantial developments of the past decade in this field.

* Includes all substantial developments of the past decade in the rapidly moving field of nonimaging optics
* The only authoritative reference on nonimaging optics, from the leader in the field

Editorial Reviews

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Govind Agrawal - "Nonimaging Optics" is very popular in the industry, and the
book should do quite well if it is written from the point of
view of an Engineer. Prof. ROLAND WINSTON is "the expert" in
this field and should do a very good job. We just hired one
of his colleagues from Germany here at the Institute of Optics,
and he will be teaching a course on this topic.

"The book is mostly theoretical, but applications to solar energy concentration are discussed at length. Mathematical foundations are explored in 13 appendices. References are numerous and up-to-date, and the index serves its purpose." - OPN Optics & Photonics News, Sept. 2006

Book Description

With nonimaging optics, it's possible to achieve concentrations of solar engergy equal to 80,000 suns!

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 512 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (January 5, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0127597514
• ISBN-13: 978-0127597515
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #558,762 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Online-Edition Missing All Appendices, November 15, 2007

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D. N. Brown - See all my reviews
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Anyone contemplating buying the online-edition of this book should be forwarned: All the appendices, which constitute 77 pages of important reference material, have been left out of this edition. You can see what you're missing in the table of contents, but that's all you'll get to see. The physical book is 491 pages long, while the online-edition gives you only 414 pages.

When I attempted to bring this to the attention of the Amazon customer support staff, I was informed that my message informing them of this technical error was itself lost due to another technical error.

If I cannot have a refund, at least I can save my fellow customers from a frustrating experience.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Error list urgently needed, December 25, 2006

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R. G. W. Brown "Physicist & Flutist" (Tustin, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nonimaging Optics (Hardcover)

This book has various mathematical errors in some of the key equations. Even the equation for the basic CPC is wrong.

Yet, in the first book, by Welford and Winston, the key equations are all correct. [Welford was a meticulous proof reader.]

This latest edition is a badly flawed book because of poor (if any) proof reading.

Get the 1st edition if you can (1978 version), to get the correct basic math, then use this edition for a reasonable review of more recent stuff.

5.0 out of 5 stars Non-Imaging Optics, September 18, 2011

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Philip Zimmermann (Southern California) - See all my reviews
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This book is about a rather esoteric subject, but it is written so that it is valuable on a number of different levels. You can gloss over the mathematics and still gain a good understanding of the subject matter. This book is especially valuable if you involved in the solar industry and I found several of the concepts it covers to be most valuable in our projects.