/sci/ - Science & Math

[ben !7LBBoh59p6 No.6031266]

A light focuser, the lines are actually tangent to what would be a slightly concave arc mirror. And you would put more in between those shown to gather more light. And the 3 dimensional version is this rotated around the y axis.

[ben !7LBBoh59p6 No.6031343]

It's a lot like a fresnel lens except instead of thicknesses of transparent medium you use mirrors to change the direction of the light.

[ben !7LBBoh59p6 No.6031429]

the big advantage is that it can scale up very large which is expensive for a fresnel lens and if the reflectors were made out of say, aluminum, it could reflect a wider range of frequencies than just visible light... maybe the arrangement could even be used to direct air or exhaust