Light Measurement Handbook

Alex Ryer0-9658356-9-3, 9780965835695

Provided by International Light, Inc., the Light Measurement Handbook contains over sixty pages of information on the physics of light. Chapters include ”What is Light,” ”How Light Behaves,” ”Light Sources,” ”Principles of Light Measurement,” etc. The Handbook is free to download, or can be viewed online.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 3
Electromagnetic Wave Theory……Page 5
Ultraviolet Light……Page 6
Color Models……Page 7
Infrared Light……Page 8
Quantum Theory……Page 9
Flat Response……Page 10
Visible Light……Page 11
Effective Irradiance……Page 12
Reflection……Page 13
Transmission: Beer-Lambert or Bouger’s Law……Page 14
Refraction: Snell’s Law……Page 15
Interference……Page 16
Collimation……Page 17
Focusing Lenses……Page 18
Concave Mirrors……Page 19
Diffraction Gratings……Page 20
Blackbody Radiation……Page 21
Incandescent Sources……Page 22
Luminescent Sources……Page 23
Sunlight……Page 24
The Inverse Square Law……Page 25
Point Source Approximation……Page 26
Lambert’s Cosine Law……Page 27
Lambertian Surface……Page 28
Solid Angles……Page 29
Radiant and Luminous Flux……Page 30
Cosine Law……Page 32
Calculating Source Distance……Page 33
Radiance and Luminance:……Page 34
Irradiance From An Extended Source:……Page 35
Radiant and Luminous Intensity:……Page 36
Converting Between Geometries……Page 38
A Baffled Light Track……Page 39
Kinematic Mounts……Page 40
Line Sources……Page 41
Polar Spatial Plots……Page 42
Cartesian Spatial Plots……Page 43
Logarithmically Scaled Plots……Page 44
Linearly Scaled Plots……Page 45
Linear vs. Diabatie Spectral Transmission Curves……Page 46
Sensitivity……Page 47
Silicon Photodiodes……Page 48
Solar-Blind Vacuum Photodiodes……Page 49
Multi-Junction Thermopiles……Page 50
Spectral Matching……Page 51
12 Choosing Input Optics……Page 55
Cosine Diffusers……Page 56
Radiance Lens Barrels……Page 57
High Gain Lenses……Page 58
13 Choosing a Radiometer……Page 59
Floating Current to Current Amplification……Page 60
Transimpedance Amplification……Page 61
Zero……Page 62
14 Calibration……Page 63
References……Page 64