Efficient conceptual design for LED-based pixel light vehicle headlamps

Marcel Philipp Held; Roland Lachmayer

doi:10.1117/12.2292741

1 December 2017 Efficient conceptual design for LED-based pixel light vehicle headlamps

Proceedings Volume 10603, Photonics, Devices, and Systems VII; 1060315 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292741
Event: Photonics Prague 2017, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

High-resolution vehicle headlamps represent a future-oriented technology that can be used to increase traffic safety and driving comfort. As a further development to the current Matrix Beam headlamps, LED-based pixel light systems enable ideal lighting functions (e.g. projection of navigation information onto the road) to be activated in any given driving scenario. Moreover, compared to other light-modulating elements such as DMDs and LCDs, instantaneous LED on-off toggling provides a decisive advantage in efficiency.

To generate highly individualized light distributions for automotive applications, a number of approaches using an LED array may be pursued. One approach is to vary the LED density in the array so as to output the desired light distribution. Another notable approach makes use of an equidistant arrangement of the individual LEDs together with distortion optics to formulate the desired light distribution. The optical system adjusts the light distribution in a manner that improves resolution and increases luminous intensity of the desired area.

An efficient setup for pixel generation calls for one lens per LED. Taking into consideration the limited space requirements of the system, this implies that the luminous flux, efficiency and resolution image parameters are primarily controlled by the lens dimensions.

In this paper a concept for an equidistant LED array arrangement utilizing distortion optics is presented. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part discusses the influence of lens geometry on the system efficiency whereas the second part investigates the correlation between resolution and luminous flux based on the lens dimensions.

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Marcel Philipp Held and Roland Lachmayer "Efficient conceptual design for LED-based pixel light vehicle headlamps", Proc. SPIE 10603, Photonics, Devices, and Systems VII, 1060315 (1 December 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292741

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