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SERI CP 255 2900 DE86004460; Report; May 1986.
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Notes transcribed from a workshop on effects of high intensity visible radiation (high solar flux) on materials are presented with comments by the workshop chairman and participants. Discussions presented include laser damage, photochemical effects, crystal defects, high temperature
Notes transcribed from a workshop on effects of high intensity visible radiation (high solar flux) on materials are presented with comments by the workshop chairman and participants. Discussions presented include laser damage, photochemical effects, crystal defects, high temperature
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effects, and testing of materials in large solar concentrators. Contrasts are observed between highly concentrated solar radiation and equivalent power levels of coherent radiation from monochromatic lasers. The discussions suggest a lack of nonlinear or multiphoton optical effects to be expected from solar radiation even at the theoretical maximum of concentration (some 60,000 times normal sun light). The proceedings are not offered as a treatise on the subject matter but as a rather freehanded recollection of notes and transcriptions of a workshop. Show Less