optics

Hi all, I've had some experience putting together a prefab circuit board, like real simple stuff and aiding friends or classmates soldering. However, I am here today because I was picked for a fellowship over summer to get more hands on learning at my university. The issue: I've been tasked...

I am trying to design a simple homemade PV solar simulator. I have picked metal-halide lamps as my light source. If the PV panel has an area of 1m^2 and I wanted to achieve spatial uniformity across the irradiated surface with an irradiance of 1000 W/m^2, how do I go about selecting what...

Hello all! I've been trying to send and receive a signal by using TOSLink optical transmitters and receivers from Sys-Concept in the same circuit (making a transceiver of sorts): http://www.sys-concept.com/toslink_receiver.htm According to the data sheets of both the receiver and the...