Abstract

An expression giving the irradiance distribution in a plane perpendicular to the axis of a reflecting cone has been found for the case of an axial source. The result is consistent with the expected behavior of a plane, which is the limiting case of a reflecting cone. The irradiance varies inversely as the square of the sum of the distances of the source and the observation point from the cone. This variation is found to be in agreement with energy conservation.

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Image Formation of a Reflecting Cone for an Off-Axis Source*

John W. Y. Lit
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60(8) 1001-1006 (1970)

Optical Properties of Conic Surfaces. I. Reflecting Cone

Shiro Fujiwara
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 52(3) 287-292 (1962)

Determination of the Optical Properties of Absorbing Uniaxial Crystals from Reflectance at Oblique Incidence

M. Berman, H. R. Kerchner, and S. Ergun
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60(5) 646-648 (1970)

Optical Properties of Molybdenum and Ruthenium*

Kenneth A. Kress and Gerald J. Lapeyre
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60(12) 1681-1684 (1970)

Planar Reflected Imagery in Photokeratoscopy*

Sidney Wittenberg and William M. Ludlam
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60(7) 981-985 (1970)