The optical design and simulation of the collimated solar simulator

Jun Zhang; Tao Ma

doi:10.1117/12.2295173

10 January 2018 The optical design and simulation of the collimated solar simulator

Jun Zhang, Tao Ma

Proceedings Volume 10616, 2017 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optical Systems and Modern Optoelectronic Instruments; 106161A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2295173
Event: International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology 2017, 2017, Beijing, China

Abstract

The solar simulator is a lighting device that can simulate the solar radiation. It has been widely used in the testing of solar cells, satellite space environment simulation and ground experiment, test and calibration precision of solar sensor．The solar simulator mainly consisted of short—arc xenon lamp, ellipsoidal reflectors, a group of optical integrator, field stop, aspheric folding mirror and collimating reflector. In this paper, the solar simulator's optical system basic size are given by calculation. Then the system is optically modeled with the Lighttools software, and the simulation analysis on solar simulator using the Monte Carlo ray -tracing technique is conducted. Finally, the simulation results are given quantitatively by diagrammatic form. The rationality of the design is verified on the basis of theory.

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Jun Zhang and Tao Ma "The optical design and simulation of the collimated solar simulator", Proc. SPIE 10616, 2017 International Conference on Optical Instruments and Technology: Optical Systems and Modern Optoelectronic Instruments, 106161A (10 January 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2295173

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