Patent ID: 7078612

Claim:
A photon battery device for converting concentrated light into electricity, said photon battery device comprising: a daylight collection disk whence said light enters via a first array of optical waveguides into a first sleeve containing a Faraday Isolator which horizontally polarizes the entering light but prevents the light's exit in the direction from which the light entered the Faraday Isolator; a large light confinement chamber consisting of two halves joined together in an airtight manner having an interior with substantially all air removed therefrom and having a non-light absorbing inner surface for retaining light in said large light confinement chamber; a first circular birefringent lens in a first neck of the large light confinement chamber, through which the horizontally polarized light entering said large light confinement chamber from the Faraday Isolator must pass; a magnet lying over the first neck of said large light confinement chamber which provides a first magnetic field to which the light is exposed after entry into said large light confinement chamber; a small light confinement chamber in a second sleeve having an interior with substantially all air removed therefrom and having a non-light absorbing inner surface for retaining light in said small light confinement chamber; a second circular birefringent lens through which the light passes to reach the small light confinement chamber in a horizontally polarized condition, wherein the light subsequently has its polarization angle changed under the influence of a second magnetic field exerted in said small light confinement chamber; a polarizing lens in said small light confinement chamber which permits light whose polarization angle has been set under the influence of the second magnetic field to pass; a second array of optical waveguides in the second sleeve configured such that the light passes into a first end of each waveguide from the polarizing lens; wherein each waveguide in the second array of optical waveguides in the second sleeve conducts the light to a lens at a second end of each waveguide which focuses the light on a specific photovoltaic cell in an array of photovoltaic cells in the second sleeve and that situation results in generation of electricity which is collected in an electricity collection chamber at an end of the array of photovoltaic cells; wherein the interior of the electricity collection chamber has substantially all air removed therefrom and has a non-light absorbing inner surface for retaining light in said electricity collection chamber; and wherein the generated electricity is then collected and distributed to users.