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Optical Engineering 497, 073002 July 2010 Computer modeling of a fiber-and-light-emitting- diode-based vehicle headlamp Jin-Jia Chen, MEMBER SPIE Abstract. A fiber-and-LED-based vehicle headlamp is presented in National Changhua University of Education which light rays emitted from multiple high-power LEDs are gathered Department of Electrical Engineering using a light collector and then guided into a projector lamp via an optical 2, ShiDa Road fiber. This proposed headlamp is intended to reduce the lamp size and Changhua, Taiwan 50074 the heat-dissipation problem simultaneously. Detailed geometric analysis E-mail: jjchen@.tw of the headlamp is given, and the optical efficiency for each component part is also calculated using a TracePro program. The computer simula- tion results show that the headlamp can produce a legal Economic Com- Kuang-Lung Huang mission for Europe low-beam pattern with a total optical efficiency up to Mingdao University 49.4%, and only eight 5-W LEDs 120 lm each are required. © 2010 So- Department of Electro-Optical and Energy ciety of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. DOI: 10.1117/1.3461984 Engineering Subject terms: LED; fiber; vehicle headlamp; projec