Design and Manufacture of Light Collimator with Narrow View Angle

Abstract:

The use of LED for illumination offers significant advantages, such as lower power consumption, longer lifetime and improved colour management. Sharp gradients in luminous intensity patterns of LED are commonly controlled by the use of secondary optics that are mostly axisymmetric. In the current study, we proposed LED secondary optics forming non-axisymmetric luminous intensity distribution with an extremely narrow view angle. The proposed secondary optics dramatically reduced the view angle of the LED, with a view angle ( 10º) in full width at half maximum (FWHM) in simulations. Afterward, a prototype of the proposed lens was machined by single point diamond turning (SPDT). Luminous intensity distribution of the machined lens was off by about 8º from the optical axis and maintained a view angle of 12º. The peak luminous intensity was folded more than thirty-two times. The proposed lens showed high optical performance and can be used for specialized optical applications.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 516)
• Pages: 305-310
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.516.305
• Online since: June 2012
• Authors: Jea Young Joo, Jung Wok Park, Soon Sub Park, Snag Bin Song
• Keywords: Collimator, Illumination, Lens, Light Emitting Diode (LED)

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