I intentionally asked this question now, because a reviewer to one of my manuscripts insisted that solar simulator lamp mostly gives UV. My manuscript was rejected (from a very highly respectable journal) based on the reviewer's judgement.
The solar simulators I have used all had some filters to make the lamp spectrum be closer to the standard AM1.5 spectrum. Without the filters, a lamp often has too strong emission in UV... That might (or might not!) be what the reviewer was meaning.
The reviewer said that solar simulator lamp is a lamp that gives UV as main radiation.
That is absolutely not correct.
In solar light which reaches earth we have about 5% of UV, then we have mostly visible & IR.
Solar simulator should give similar distribution. Solar simulator should give only low proportion of UV, just like reaching in solar light.
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/old/8666.pdf
https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1/9837/LearyG0516.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
https://www.newport.com/medias/sys_master/images/images/hd3/hdf/9035384717342/DS-12082-Sol3-Solar-Sim-10-16.pdf
https://assets.newport.com/webDocuments-EN/images/12298.pdf
http://www.asahi-spectra.com/opticalinstrument/download/hal320.pdf
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