CO4Lighting and illumination with Lighttools
Level: Specialized
Audience:
People working in design offices, R&D units, interested by domestic or public lighting
Language of the training: French
Maximum capacity: 10
Price: 1380 € HT -
Duration: 3 days - 21 h
Objectives
- Skills photometry and non-imaging optics
- Understand the methods of photometric computer-aided design
- Learn how to optimize the photometry of optical systems
Addressed topics
Sources, surfaces and environments
- Modeling the optical properties of surfaces
- Total reflection, scattering, absorption
- Modeling of light sources
Simulations with Lighttools software
- Principle of non-sequential ray tracings
- Study of illumination and intensity maps
Non-imaging optical applications
- Optics for LED lighting
- Study of display systems
- Light guides and concentrators
The program
Reminders in photometry
- Flux, illumination, intensity, luminance, geometric extent…
- Physical properties of surfaces and environments, scattering, absorption, refraction, specular reflectance, BRDF
- Visual photometry (lighting) and radiometry
Photometric computer assisted design
- Basis for Lighttools : sources definitions, optomechanical structures, optical systems
- Prinicipe of non-sequential ray tracing. Monte Carlo method
- Simulation of illumination and intensity maps. Photometric performance.
- Analysis, optimization methods, definitions of merit functions
Some non-imaging optical applications
- Simulations of sources, plastic optics for LEDs: collimators, concentrators
- Obtaining uniform illumination maps: use of light guides and microlens arrays
- Projector, backlight illumination, screen
- Simulations of the effect of stray light
Methodology and assessment
Lectures and pratical exercices with Lighttools
Pedagogical manager(s):
- Lionel Jacubowiez - Senior teacher at Institut d'Optique
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