Computer modeling of a fiber-and-light-emitting-diode-based vehicle headlamp

Jin-Jia Chen; Kuang-Lung Huang; Po-Chun Lin

doi:10.1117/1.3461984

1 July 2010 Computer modeling of a fiber-and-light-emitting-diode-based vehicle headlamp

Jin-Jia Chen, Kuang-Lung Huang, Po-Chun Lin

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 49, Issue 7, 073002 (July 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3461984

Abstract

A fiber-and-LED-based vehicle headlamp is presented in which light rays emitted from multiple high-power LEDs are gathered using a light collector and then guided into a projector lamp via an optical fiber. This proposed headlamp is intended to reduce the lamp size and the heat-dissipation problem simultaneously. Detailed geometric analysis of the headlamp is given, and the optical efficiency for each component part is also calculated using a TracePro program. The computer simulation results show that the headlamp can produce a legal Economic Commission for Europe low-beam pattern with a total optical efficiency up to 49.4%, and only eight 5-W LEDs (120 lm each) are required.

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Jin-Jia Chen, Kuang-Lung Huang, and Po-Chun Lin "Computer modeling of a fiber-and-light-emitting-diode-based vehicle headlamp," Optical Engineering 49(7), 073002 (1 July 2010). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3461984

Published: 1 July 2010

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