Here is a direct comparison between the unoptimized and optimized systems. So that the improvement is more obvious, all graphs are shown using the same scale for both cases:

	Before Optimization	After Optimization
Peak On-axis Brightness	25 Cd	326 Cd
3D Layout Drawing
Luminous Intensity (Lm/sr, Cd)
Luminance in Position Space (Lm/m2/sr, Cd/m2)

Note the following: this is not necessarily the best performance that can be obtained. Further optimization may result in further improvements. Also, we optimized only for the low-angle rays: a more sophisticated merit function can be easily built by adding further NSDD operands into the merit function.