Monte Carlo calculation of light distribution in an integrating cavity illuminator

Martin Kaplan

doi:10.1117/12.45359

1 June 1991 Monte Carlo calculation of light distribution in an integrating cavity illuminator

Martin Kaplan

Proceedings Volume 1448, Camera and Input Scanner Systems; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.45359
Event: Electronic Imaging '91, 1991, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Integrating cavities are being used for illumination in scanners. An integrating cavity is hollow, with entrance and exit holes, and a diffusely reflecting white interior. Light enters, undergoes multiple reflections to distribute the light uniformly, and exits toward the film or document. An arbitrarily shaped exit hole provides a uniform, diffuse light source of any desired shape, most commonly a line source. Integrating cavities also are being used as light collection systems, such as in laser scanners, where typically light enters a slit and exits a round hole, continuing to a photodetector. In this paper, integrating cavities are theoretically modelled by Mont Carlo ray tracing. This approach is very versatile, capable of modelling various types of cavity surfaces (diffuse, specular, refractive), arbitrary geometries, and arbitrary input light distributions. Results are presented for cavity efficiency, spatial uniformity and angular distribution of the exiting light. Complex cavity geometries from scanners in use are modelled. Theoretical results are compared with laboratory measurements.

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Martin Kaplan "Monte Carlo calculation of light distribution in an integrating cavity illuminator", Proc. SPIE 1448, Camera and Input Scanner Systems, (1 June 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.45359

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