Computational Illumination Optics at TU/e

PhD

	Antonio Barion, Lie algebraic methods in geometrical optics: A study of optical aberrations (2025)
	Maikel Bertens, Numerical methods for the hyperbolic Monge-Ampère equation with applications to optical design (2023)
	Carmela Filosa, Phase space ray tracing for illumination optics (2018)
	Vì Kronberg, Inverse freeform reflector design with a scattering surface (2024)
	Corien Prins, Inverse methods for illumination optics (2014)
	Lotte Romijn, Generated Jacobian equations in freeform optical design: Mathematical theory and numerics (2021)
	Robert van Gestel, Discontinuous Galerkin methods for Liouville’s equation of geometrical optics (2023)
	Bart van Lith, Principles of computational illumination optics (2017)
	Teun van Roosmalen, Advances in inverse freeform optical design: Fresnel reflections and local grid refinement (2024)
	Nitin Yadav, Monge-Ampère problems with non-quadratic cost function: Application to freeform optics (2018)

Master

• René Beltman, Solving the Monge-Ampère equation for a free-form reflector in arbitrary coordinate systems
• Maikel Bertens, Least-squares method for the Monge-Ampère equation with application to calculating lens surfaces in optical systems
• Pieter Braam, Inverse method for a freeform point-to-point reflector system
• Siyuan Jiang, Inverse design of cylindrically symmetric reflector with scattering surfaces
• Kevin Menting, Fixed-point method for the Monge-Ampère equation using Green's functions
• Jorg Portegies, Fast ray tracing in phase space for optical design
• Jarno van Roosmalen, The Monge-Ampère equation for optimal mass transport with applications in optical design
• Teun van Roosmalen, Saddle point construction for aberrations in grazing incidence mirror systems
• Hannah van Susteren, Mathematical model for a freeform optical system. Point source to point target with two reflectors
• Ellen Vugts, The hyperbolic Monge-Ampère equation
• Rutger Wessels, A least-squares algorithm for the Monge-Ampère Equation: analysis and application to freeform optics

Bachelor

• Maikel Bertens, Numerical models of light scattering in a dusty plasma
• Kevin Menting, Time integration methods for gradient-index media using Hamiltonian optics
• Lucas Ronckers, Approximation of the Luneburg lens with discrete layers using geometric optics
• Jesse Schardijn, Simulating light propagation by using the Fast Marching Method
• Maaike ter Weeme, Analysis of numerical time integration methods for linear, nonautonomous systems of ODEs with an application to GRIN lenses
• Robert van Barlingen, An introduction to phase space ray tracing: and everything that came before
• Lotte van de Leur, Comparing two methods for Monte Carlo ray tracing
• Alex van der Plas, Inverse optical design methods for freeform two-dimensional systems
• Alwin van Ramshorst, Geometric equations for the design of a freezer lens