Abstract

Here, we present a technique that predicts the radiation’s distribution in any optical system. It is based on decomposing the emitting source power by assigning a fraction of the total power to each emitted ray. All kinds of power losses in the rays’ optical paths are considered. Fractioned radiation patterns are created in the last optical system surface, each associated with a single ray. We refer to fractioned patterns as those that conform to a whole radiating pattern. Thus, the irradiance of the completely illuminated surface is calculated by adding the optical system’s fractioned radiation maps. This method is non-zero étendue. The result presented here allows for predicting the radiation patterns accurately with a handful of equations and can help design any image and non-image-forming optical systems.

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