HIGHLY COLLIMATED FLASH SOLAR SIMULATORS

A solar simulator (also known as "artificial sun") is a device that provides illumination approximating natural sunlight. The purpose of the solar simulator is to provide a controllable indoor test facility under laboratory conditions, used for the testing of solar cells, sun screen, plastics, and other materials and devices.

RotaLab's line of large area highly collimated flash solar simulators are capable of illuminating targets of 1.8x1.5 m with uniform solar illumination. Our flash systems are manufactured to achieve Class AAA by ASTM standards for targets within that area. This makes our systems one of the largest, most uniform solar simulators currently available on the market.

Our highly collimated flash solar simulators illuminate targets with a collimation angle of +/- 0.5 degrees. This makes them ideal tools for testing of concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), concentrated solar thermal devices and other photovoltaic technologies that require an extremely high degree of collimation with fast response times.

Conformity with ASTM, IEC and JIS standards about spectral matching, irradiance spatial non-uniformity and temporal instability is available for our highly collimated flash solar simulators.