Something like that yes.
Will fluorescent light charge solar panel.
There for powering a photo voltaic cell with a florescent light is about as inefficient as you can get.
We know what might be running through your mind already and we can say yes it is true.
First off the bread and butter of solar panels photo voltaic cells is that they use only the sun to create usable energy.
You will get bugger all charge off a solar panel under fluorescent lighting.
Solar panels are truly amazing things they will turn almost any reasonable light in to electricity depending on how intense the light as to how much electricity they produce.
But under fluorescent or mercury vapour street lights they will not i repeat not produce enough current to charge batteries light up lights or anything else.
It is true that solar panels need light before they can charge but as you might have guessed it is not necessary for the light to be from the sun.
The short answer is yes artificial light can power a solar panel.
However these technologies were not suitable at all since they were able to produce more than 1 w m 2.
Other sources of light like fluorescent led and metal halide were not as efficient with silicon cells but instead with gaas and cdte solar panels.
Depending on the wattage the number of bulbs and distance the solar panel is from the light source will determine how strong a charge the solar panel receives and how much wattage the solar panel will then be able to produce for powering other objects.