Design of a Light Collector with Two-story LED Mounting Holder for a Fiber-optic Illuminator

광파이버 일루미네이터의 2층구조형 LED 집광판 설계

This paper proposes a new structure of a fiber-optic illuminator using high Lux RGB LEDs. A simulation program, LightTools, is used for the verification of the model. An LED mounting holder containing 74 RGB LEDs is used as a basic part of its light collector. Since the light output level of current LED lamps is still far below that of conventional lamps, it is required to double the right output in order to replace a conventional illuminator with a halogen lamp. An additional cone-type reflector is installed hemispherically and the resulting structure comprises a basic collector unit. To further increase the output two collector units are connected together in series. As the result, the light output increases nearly 70% with compared to a collector with a basic structure. The system efficiency can be increased more than 8 times with compared to conventional one.