会议名称(中文)：  2014年SPIE非成像光学会议 
会议名称(英文)：  Nonimaging Optics: Efficient Design for Illumination and Solar Concentration XI 
所属学科：  光学,再生能源技术与工程  
开始日期：  2014-08-17 
结束日期：  2014-08-21 
所在国家：  美国 
所在城市：  美国 
具体地点：  San Diego, California, United States 
主办单位：  国际光学和光子学学会 

[ 重要日期 ]
摘要截稿日期：  2014-02-03 

[ 会务组联系方式 ] 
联系电话：  +1 360 685 5600 
E-MAIL：  saral@spie.org    
会议网站：  http://spie.org/OPO/conferencedetails/nonimaging-optics  
会议背景介绍：  Many important optical subsystems are concerned with power transfer and brightness rather than with image fidelity. Nonimaging optics is a design approach that departs from the methods of traditional optical design to develop techniques for maximizing the collecting power of concentrator and illuminator systems.

Nonimaging devices substantially outperform conventional imaging lenses and mirrors in these applications, approaching the theoretical (thermodynamic) limit. Nonimaging design methods usually involve solving ordinary or partial differential equations, calculating the flow lines of the ray bundles, coupling the edge rays of extended sources and targets or optimizing a multi-parameter merit function computed by ray-tracing techniques. While geometrically based, the design fundamentals have been extended to the diffraction limited and even sub-wavelength domain. Therefore applicability exists in near-field optical microscopy and nanometer scale optics.

This conference will address the theory of nonimaging optics and its application to the design and experimental realization of illumination and concentration systems, tailored freeform optics, display backlighting, condenser optics, high-flux solar and infrared concentration, daylighting, LED optical systems, laser pumping, and luminaires.

The revival of considerable work in solar energy concentration for both photovoltaic and thermal applications, much of which includes nonimaging optics, prompts reincorporating these fields into this conference.

The use of nonimaging optics promises higher efficiency, relaxed physical tolerances, improved optical uniformity, and reduced manufacturing costs. We encourage submissions ranging from fundamentals to critical design issues and practical applications.
 
征文范围及要求：  Paper submissions are also solicited in the following and related areas:
radiative transfer near the étendue limit
concentrator optics
illumination and irradiation optics
solar photovoltaic and solar thermal concentration
fiber-optic and light-pipe optical systems
radiometry
daylighting
characterization of light-transfer devices
freeform optics
optical furnaces and radiative heating
infrared detection
LED applications
laser pumping
condenser optics.