Abstract

A decrease over time of the intensity of a laboratory sun spectrum, provided by an ORC P-1944 Solar Simulator System, was discovered to result from damage to the dichroic filter, not from aging of the xenon lamp, as expected. This device provides the filtered xenon arc spectra which approximate Air Mass Zero, One, and Two Sun spectra.

Simulating the Solar Spectrum with a Filtered High-Pressure Xenon Lamp

E. A. Boettner and L. J. Miedler
Appl. Opt. 2(1) 105-108 (1963)

Xenon Compact Arc Lamps*

William T. Anderson
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 41(6) 385-388 (1951)

Ultraviolet Spectral Distributions and Aging Characteristics of Xenon Arcs and Filters

N. Z. Searle, P. Giesecke, R. Kinmonth, and R. C. Hirt
Appl. Opt. 3(8) 923-927 (1964)

Continuum Emission Spectra from Long Linear Xenon Discharge Lamps with Metallic Halide Additives

C. F. Gallo
Appl. Opt. 10(11) 2517-2520 (1971)

Time-resolved xenon flash-lamp opacity measurements

Gary J. Linford
Appl. Opt. 33(36) 8333-8345 (1994)