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Optical design of two-reflector systems, the Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer problem and Fermat's principle

Analysis of PDEs 2007-05-23 v3 Optimization and Control

Abstract

It is shown that the problem of designing a two-reflector system transforming a plane wave front with given intensity into an output plane front with prescribed output intensity can be formulated and solved as the Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer problem.

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@article{arxiv.math/0303388,
  title  = {Optical design of two-reflector systems, the Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer problem and Fermat's principle},
  author = {Tilmann Glimm and Vladimir Oliker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0303388},
  year   = {2007}
}

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25 pages, 2 figures