A
high intensity mutli-
wavelength illumination apparatus comprising an array of LEDs each of which has a predetermined spectral output that is emitted over a predetermined
solid angle, an array of non-imaging concentrators the individual non-imaging concentrators of which are optically coupled in one-to-one correspondence with the LEDs, each non-imaging
concentrator in the array of non-imaging concentrators operating to collect
radiation emitted by each of the LEDs and to re-emit substantially all the collected
radiation as a beam having a diverging
solid angle smaller than said predetermined
solid angle over which
radiation is emitted by each of the LEDs, the non-imaging concentrators each having an entrance aperture for receiving radiation emitted by a corresponding one of the LEDs and an exit aperture from which the LEDs output emerges spatially and spectrally uniform in the near field of the exit aperture, and a light
integrator having an entrance
facet optically coupled to each of the exit apertures of the non-imaging concentrators for receiving radiation there through and conducting it to an exit
facet thereof from which radiation is emitted for a downstream application, the light
integrator being structured and arranged to substantially uniformly mix the individual beams emitted by each
concentrator so that radiation emitted from its exit
facet is uniformly
colored.