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Paper Abstract
Manufacturing technologies as injection molding or embossing specify their production limits for minimum radii of the
vertices or draft angle for demolding, for instance. In some demanding nonimaging applications, these restrictions may
limit the system optical efficiency or affect the generation of undesired artifacts on the illumination pattern. A novel
manufacturing concept is presented here, in which the optical surfaces are not obtained from the usual revolution
symmetry with respect to a central axis (z axis), but they are calculated as free-form surfaces describing a spiral
trajectory around z axis. The main advantage of this new concept lies in the manufacturing process: a molded piece can
be easily separated from its mold just by applying a combination of rotational movement around axis z and linear movement along axis z, even for negative draft angles. Some of these spiral symmetry examples will be shown here, as well as their simulated results.
Paper Details
Date Published: 21 September 2011
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 8170, Illumination Optics II, 817005 (21 September 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.896829
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8170:
Illumination Optics II
Tina E. Kidger; Stuart David, Editor(s)
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 8170, Illumination Optics II, 817005 (21 September 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.896829
Show Author Affiliations
Pablo Zamora, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Pablo Benítez, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (United States)
Juan C. Miñano, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (United States)
Pablo Benítez, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (United States)
Juan C. Miñano, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (United States)
Juan Vilaplana, Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC (United States)
Marina Buljan, Univ. Politécnica Madrid (Spain)
Marina Buljan, Univ. Politécnica Madrid (Spain)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8170:
Illumination Optics II
Tina E. Kidger; Stuart David, Editor(s)
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