Color patterns in a tapered lightpipe with RGB LEDs

Diego Esparza; Ivan Moreno

doi:10.1117/12.862067

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19 August 2010 Color patterns in a tapered lightpipe with RGB LEDs

Diego Esparza, Ivan Moreno

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Proceedings Volume 7786, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering XI; and Advances in Thin Film Coatings VI; 77860I (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.862067
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

There is an enormous range of possible color distributions that may be created with a light cone when the primary source is an array of multicolor light-emitting diodes (LEDs). If one looks through a lightpipe toward an LED array, multiple images of the color LEDs can be observed as in a kaleidoscope. A tapered lightpipe behaves as a three-dimensional kaleidoscope, and then, by changing the position and orientation of the red-green-blue LEDs can produce a plenty of amazing illumination patterns. We analytically calculate this color spatial distribution of the illumination pattern produced by a tapered lightpipe. Moreover, we simulate these color illumination patterns, and analyze their structure and symmetry.

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Diego Esparza and Ivan Moreno "Color patterns in a tapered lightpipe with RGB LEDs", Proc. SPIE 7786, Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Engineering XI; and Advances in Thin Film Coatings VI, 77860I (19 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.862067

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