The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and assemblies for use
in producing a desired output beam that meets a desired intensity prescription.
An apparatus can include an input surface, and an optically active output surface
that receives a collimated beam, such that the output surface refractively maps
an illuminance distribution of the collimated beam into a prescribed intensity
pattern. The apparatus can include a collimating lens that collimates an input
beam. Additionally, the output surface can be defined according to a cumulative
illumination integral for the illuminance distribution and a cumulative illumination
integral of the intensity pattern. Some embodiments provide methods that can determine
an illumination integral for an illuminance pattern of an input, determine an intensity
prescription, establish a spatio-angular correspondence of the input beam with
the intensity prescription, derive surface normal vectors, and determine the output
surface according to the surface normal vectors.