Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 10, Issue 4, 353(2017)

Optical design of rectangular illumination with freeform lenses for the application of LED road lighting

Chunyun XU1,2,3, Haobo CHENG2,3、*, and Yunpeng FENG2,3
Author Affiliations
  • 1China Aerospace Academy of Systems Science and Engineering, Beijing 100048, China
  • 2Joint Research Center for Optomechatronics Engineering, School of Optoelectronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
  • 3Shenzhen Research Institute, Beijing Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518057, China
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    We present a freeform lens for application to light-emitting diodes (LED) road lighting. We propose a simple source-target luminous intensity mapping method based on Snell’s law and geometric-optics analysis. We calculated different contours of cross-sections to construct a freeform lens with a smooth surface. The computer simulation results show that the lighting performance of a single freeform lens is not sufficient for road lighting. For the road lamp simulation, we adopted an oval arrangement of freeform lenses on a printed circuit board. In addition, we performed tolerance analysis to determine the tolerance limits of manufacturing and installation errors. A road lamp at a height of 12 m can create rectangular illumination with an area of 40 m × 12 m, 69.7% uniformity, and average illuminance of 24.6 lux. This lighting performance can fully comply with the urban road lighting design standard.

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    Chunyun XU, Haobo CHENG, Yunpeng FENG. Optical design of rectangular illumination with freeform lenses for the application of LED road lighting[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2017, 10(4): 353

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    Paper Information

    Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Received: Feb. 24, 2017

    Accepted: Jul. 1, 2017

    Published Online: Jan. 17, 2018

    The Author Email: CHENG Haobo (chenghaobo@tsinghua.org.cn)

    DOI:doi 10.1007/s12200-017-0707-7

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