Advanced LED Solid-State Lighting Optics

Dear Colleagues,

Light emitting diodes (LED) have been intensively studied for white-light lighting since the luminous efficacy exceeds 50 lm/W. Currently, the luminous efficacy of an LED light tube/bulb is almost above 100 lm/W. With no doubt, LED solid state lighting (SSL) has become the major light source in general lighting.

The fact of high efficiency and other advantages of LED SSL is enough to penetrate all lighting scenarios. However, what people demands for the new-generation lighting is not only in energy efficiency but also in lighting quality and the others. Thus, how to make the lighting more user-friendly is one of the important issues, and here optics is the point. This is reason we launch this Special Issue, entitled “Advanced LED Solid-State Lighting Optics”.

We invite investigators to submit papers, which discuss the novel optical design in enhancing lighting efficiency, in more uniform illumination pattern, in higher sharpness for special lighting, in higher signal-to-noise ratio for communication, in more functions for new applications, etc.

The potential topics include, but not limited to:

1. Novel optical structure in enhancing light extraction;
2. Novel design in LED packaging for better performance;
3. Phosphor technology for higher color rendering or stability;
4. New approach on LED light source modeling;
5. Novel design in secondary optics;
6. Optical design for anti-glare;
7. Outdoor lighting, indoor lighting, or auto forward lighting;
8. White light pumped by laser diodes;
9. Optical design for special lighting;
10. Optical scheme in enhancing free space communication with LED lighting.

Prof. Dr. Ching-Cherng Sun
Prof. Dr. Shih-Hsin Ma
Guest Editors

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