Optical design of rectangular illumination with freeform lenses for the application of LED road lighting

Abstract

We present a freeform lens for application to light-emitting diodes (LED) road lighting. We propose a simple source–target luminous intensity mapping method based on Snell’s law and geometric-optics analysis. We calculated different contours of cross-sections to construct a freeform lens with a smooth surface. The computer simulation results show that the lighting performance of a single freeform lens is not sufficient for road lighting. For the road lamp simulation, we adopted an oval arrangement of freeform lenses on a printed circuit board. In addition, we performed tolerance analysis to determine the tolerance limits of manufacturing and installation errors. A road lamp at a height of 12 m can create rectangular illumination with an area of 40 m × 12 m, 69.7% uniformity, and average illuminance of 24.6 lux. This lighting performance can fully comply with the urban road lighting design standard.

Keywords

light-emitting diodes (LED) / nonimaging optics / freeform lens design / rectangular illumination

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Science and Technology Innovation Foundation of Shenzhen (Nos. ZDSYS201604211455119, and JSGG20160229115108346).

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