KEYWORDS: Solar concentrators, Mirrors, Radon, Algorithm development, Systems modeling, Optical testing, Solar energy systems, Optical design, Aspheric optics, Solar processes
In this work we present the optical design of a solar concentrator for an High-Flux solar furnace of a solar laboratory, these concentrator is compound for an aspheric mirror surface sectioned in 121 hexagonal facets to simplify the construction process, its total diameter is 6.6 m and a focal length is 3.68 m, also was developed the corresponding algorithm to determine the correct position and orientation of each hexagonal section that compound the arrangement. We present the results of the focused energy of this configuration and we propose a modification on the original position of the mirrors for optimizing the focusing of energy by the sun furnace. These modifications produces an increment on the energy focused on a small area in a remarkable way similar to used a parabolic mirror.
The algorithm before mentioned was programmed in MathCAD and it calculates the modification of the original position of each hexagonal mirror giving us a file that ZEMAX can read. This file contains the information of each 121 mirrors from the arrangement and also the correct form, position and direction, simplifying the traditional input process one by one.
In this work we present a method to design compact and anastigmatic telescopes using tree mirrors, in the
proposed system two of the mirrors are build in the same substratum to reduce the size of the telescope. The
tree conic constants are used to correct the spherical aberration, comma and the astigmatism. In this work the
equations are presented for the design to first order, to third order and we propose a method to calculate the
conic constants exactly, Using our equations a telescope is designed and the obtained parameters are used in the
optical design program, OSLO, to verify the quality of the image.
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