A solar simulator combines mercury lamps and halogen lamps, to improve
upon conventional solar simulators using halogen and infrared lamps which
cannot recreate an environment close to that under real sunlight, and
upon solar simulators using expensive and fragile metal halide lamps and
arc xenon lamps. An environment recreation laboratory for solar
simulation includes a lamp bank mounted at an upper portion thereof and
including a plurality of halogen lamps, halogen filter lamps being
halogen lamps provided with an infrared filter, respectively, and mercury
lamps. A temperature control unit includes a cooling unit that discharges
air to cool the lamp bank, and an air conditioner that distributes the
air discharged by the cooling unit. An electrical panel controls
operations of the lamp bank and the temperature control unit, such that
an environment within the environment recreation laboratory may very
closely simulate the environment under real sunlight.