Secondary Optical Design Research Articles

Secondary Optical Design of LED Road Lights

Aiming to the application of high-power LEDs in road lights, this article discusses the requirements of optical properties of LED road lights. It carries out the reflector-based secondary optical design of the selected LEDs, which is simulated with ASAP. The results show that this design can take full advantage of the optical properties of LED light sources, greatly improve the efficiency of LED road lights, and improve the uniformity of road lighting, so as to achieve the effects with which those effects produced from the traditional lights cannot be compared.

Design Secondary Optical System Applied in White-LED General Illumination

As a new generation of light source, LED has many advantages that other light sources do not have. However, due to the nonuniform lighting of LED, secondary LED optical system design is particularly important. Freeform surface tailoring method, an important method of lighting design, establishes a light intensity change model after smooth surface refraction (reflection) of the light and simplifies the solution process for more complex issues of solution using the free surface tailoring method. Based on this method, secondary LED optical system is designed, and the light intensity distribution is simulated after LED light passes through the secondary optical system. The results show that the method has not only simplified the calculation process of the free surface tailoring method, but also the designed LED secondary optical system has achieved the purpose of uniform lighting to a certain degree.

Freeform LED lens for rectangularly prescribed illumination

Freeform lenses are playing a more and more important role in LED secondary optics design. In this study, based on the new light energy mapping relationship, edge ray principle, Snell's law and error control of surface construction, a modified discontinuous freeform lens design method was presented for rectangularly prescribed illumination, with the advantages of a flexible energy mapping relationship, accurate light irradiation control and easier to manufacture. A polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) discontinuous freeform lens was designed as an example for LED tunnel illumination according to this method. The numerical simulation results demonstrated that the light pattern of the lens was in good agreement with the expected illumination performance when using a point source. Tolerance analyses were also conducted. An extended light source had little effect on the light output efficiency (LOE) of the lens but significantly decreased the effective illumination area. Installation errors had more effect on the uniformity and shape of the light pattern than the LOE of the lens. The tolerances of vertical, horizontal and rotational deviation of this lens were 0.4 mm, 0.4 mm and 2°, respectively.