DESIGNING GENERAL REFLECTORS BY FORMULATION METHOD

Abstract

Distributing the lamp light to desired direction by desired quantity is provided by reflectors. The most of luminaires include reflectors, so, designing reflector is important in lighting. There are different types of reflectors to form the lamp light. General reflectors take an important part in these reflector types. General reflectors are designed to provide the desired luminaire polar distribution curve. In other words, a luminaire polar distribution curve is taken as a datum and then designed a reflector which provide this light distribution. There are a lot of different methods to design general reflectors. In this study, the general reflector design which is based on formulation method is explained and done some examples and it is given the results of these examples.