• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.25 no.12
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• pp.60-66
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• 2011

There are several technological problems have to be resolved for LEDs to be used as a general purpose light source. In addition, there are several differences between existing luminaires and the general planer LED luminaire for the intensity distribution. Therefore, the optical engineer then faces the challenging a problem of designing for a spatially extended and non-uniform light source. In the previous studies on the optical design of luminaires, a lot of studies on reflectors and light source have been conducted but the ones on prisms and lenses are insufficient at present. This study developed the numerical model of planar prism LED luminaire to control luminous intensity distribution of LED luminaires. And this study presents an optical calculation process for the prism optical design of a planar prism LED luminaire and a comparison of the simulation results between the developed numerical model and Photopia 2.0 to verify the accuracy of the numerical model. In addition, this study showed a method for the control of various luminous intensity distribution from the developed numerical model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2009

Photopia, LightTools, and ASAP are typical software for optical design of a luminaire. Through using various lighting simulation software some different results can be found under the same conditions. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to compare simulated photometric data and values illuminance of different types of LED prism luminaires under the same conditions. Then, LED prism luminaires were divided into the linear type and the planar type. Also three kinds of prism angles were divided into $30^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$, and $60^{\circ}$. In addition, the reasons for such differences were analyzed.