Solar light systems, and related components and methods

A solar light system, comprising a solar radiation collection and processing system to receive incident solar radiation during daylight hours and to process the incident solar radiation to prepare and provide processed solar radiation including concentrated visible light, the collection and processing system including:

• a first stage optical concentrator disposed to receive and concentrate solar radiation and prepare first concentrated solar radiation;
• an optical filter to remove at least a portion of radiation outside of the visible light range, the optical filter disposed to receive as input at least a portion of the first concentrated solar radiation and to prepare spectrally-conditioned solar radiation including visible light;
• a parallel-processing optical concentrator disposed to receive as input at least a portion of the spectrally-conditioned solar radiation and to prepare multiple beams of processed solar radiation including concentrated visible light, the parallel-processing optical concentrator comprising at least one parallel-processing array with a plurality of optical concentrating elements in a parallel-processing arrangement to receive and concentrate different spatial portions of solar-sourced radiation input to the parallel-processing array;
• an optical collimator disposed along an optical path between the first stage optical concentrator and the parallel-processing optical concentrator to provide the at least a portion of the spectrally conditioned solar radiation in a collimated form;
• a plurality of light conduits corresponding to the multiple beams of processed solar radiation and with each different single said light conduit corresponding to a single corresponding said optical concentrating element and disposed to receive at least a portion of the processed solar radiation of a different said beam.