This invention consists in a nonimaging device for concentration or
collimation of radiation on a receiver or from an emitter (14), depending
on the case. The device is made up of the lens (50), which surrounds the
receiver and consists of the aspheric surface (21), and the lens (15),
whose upper refractive surface (16) may be aspheric, while the lower
surface is aspheric (17) in its central portion (between points 18 and
19) and has a structure with discontinuous slope (20) in its external
portion, in which the faces (22) fundamentally refract the rays while the
faces (23) reflect them by total internal reflection. The design method
provides that the device properties of concentration/collimation are
noticeably superior to those of the existing inventions. Possible
applications of this lens include: radiation sensors, illumination
systems with LEDs, wireless optical communications and photovoltaic solar
energy.