anidolic

Doctorate students at our University can find in the Syllabus a course entitled Dialogues on Anidolic Optics. The inquiring reader might ask what anidodlic means. It is nothing but non-imaging in Greek, but (to us) it sounds better. As researchers in this field we cannot allow ourselves to deal with common names as charm or others used by the particle physicist, as we deal with a venerable and traditional science (old fashioned even, as perhaps we at this Institute are): geometrical optics, whose variational principles were already known by Plotine and other Ancient Greeks.

1991, Winston, Roland; Holman, Robert L; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers, Nonimaging Optics: Maximum Efficiency Light Transfer : 23-24 July 1991, San Diego, California

Zenithal openings (Couret et al. 1994) are also attracting interest because they provide a high illuminance level; an anidolic toplighting consists of a compound parabolic concentrator which concentrates light in its top mirror and then diffuses it with its bottom one (Figure 3.21). It protects against direct sunlight, something difficult with atria.

2002, Andreas K. Athienitis, Thermal Analysis and Design of Passive Solar Buildings