Abstract:
The optical design based on foci mapping ellipse flow-patch method has many advantages, such as clear geometric meaning, design flexibility and explicit method of optimization, but there is a drawback that the surface is not smooth. In order to sew up each ellipse flow-patch on the freeform reflector smoothly, the surface of reflector started from one point on the edge and a smooth ellipse flow-patch was built in the direction, then the discontinuity in the direction could be reduced by the energy adjusting method. The time consumption for the surface reconstruction from 40 000 ellipsoid pieces with this method is only about 2 min. The free-form surface cannot only ensure the energy distributed equally, but also improve the smoothness greatly.