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Title: Optical design of two-reflector systems, the Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer problem and Fermat's principle

Authors: Tilmann Glimm and Vladimir Oliker

Issue: Volume 53 (2004), Issue 5, 1255-1278

Abstract:

It is shown that the problem of designing a two-reflector system transforming a plane wave front with given intensity into an output plane front with prescribed output intensity can be formulated and solved as the Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer problem.