The aim is to gather ambient light (which will consist of light from the sun, light refracted in the atmosphere and light which has reflected off the ground (and potentially then the atmosphere)) and then be able to retrofit the lens to a photovoltaic panel. As the light rays will all be...
I need to produce a lens which can produce a focus infinitely far away, effectively producing rays which are parallel to each other. However the tricky bit comes where:
-the light entering the lens comes from random angles (but only into the desired side)
-preferably the design would be scalable...
Sorry I didn't really articulate the problem very well:
-Light enters the lens at any, unknown angle (as it does when it has passed through the atmosphere)
-Light leaves the lens with all rays parallel.
I'm sure you can now see why a magnifying glass would hardly suffice
Is it possible to design a lens which would 'focus' scattered light. However, rather than producing a point across which all light would pass, the light would need to exit the lens(es) on parallel paths. I don't necessarily need a design (although if it exists that would be great) but rather...
