Aachen Polymer Optics Days 2014

LED’s open up new possibilities in lighting. Although most of the people are mainly interested in the high efficiency and therefore the energy savings realized with LED’s, mainly optical engineers and lighting designers are fascinated by the very bright but small light source which – at least in theory – opens up completely new possibilities in optical design. But these opportunities do not come for free – on the other side new challenges have to be mastered, mainly in terms of the high brightness of the light source itself, the hemispherical distribution of the direct part of the light, not to forget topics like binning and kitting.