High power solar energy transmission by solid-core fused silica light guides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4446, Issue , 2001, Pages 76-87

  Liang, Dawei ^a   Duarte, Sandra ^a   Trindade, João ^a   Ferreira, Daniel ^a   Monteiro, Luís Fraser ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; FUSED SILICA; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POWER CONTROL; RAY TRACING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMAL INSULATION;

SOLAR ENERGY TRANSMISSION;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0035759508     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.448832     Document Type: Article

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