Abstract
The nonimaging optical system, by definition, does not produce an image of the light source. Instead, it is designed to concentrate radiation at a density as high as theoretically possible. Nonimaging optics has been used for detecting Cerenkov radiation in a fission reactor in the 1960s. Cerenkov radiation is a weak signal and has a limited angle of emission; these characteristics demand the use of the nonimaging concentrator, as will be seen in the course of this section. A detector for Cerenkov radiation with a nonimaging concentrator was installed at the Fermi Laboratory of the University of Chicago, and at the Argonne National Laboratory in the USA by Hinterberger and Winston [182]. Earlier work on this ideal concentrator was undertaken by Baranov in the former USSR [27, 182].
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Leutz, R., Suzuki, A. (2001). Nonimaging Optics. In: Nonimaging Fresnel Lenses. Springer Series in OPTICAL SCIENCES, vol 83. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45290-4_3
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