Decide Which Lighting Technology Is Best for Your ApplicationLight Sources, Second Edition: Basics of Lighting Technologies and Applications presents an overview of the three main technologies that have produced the numerous families of lighting products on the market today: electrical incandescence, electrical gas discharges, and semiconductor lig
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Light Sources
Basics of Lighting Technologies and Applications
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4
Basic
Principles
of
Light
and Vision
for
waves
traveling
from
a
medium
of
a
higher
refractive
index
to
a
medium
of
lower
refractive
index
(glass
to
air,
not
vice
versa),
is
known
as
total
internal
reflection
and
it
is
the
principle
upon
which
optical
fibers
work
(Figure 1.4).
Refraction
is
behind
the
optical
properties
of
lenses.
The
Fresnel
design
(Figure 1.5)
allows
for
the
construction
of
large
lenses
by
reducing
the
volume
and
weight
that
is
required
for
the
construction
of
conventional
lenses.
Refraction is
n
2
n
1
θ
2
θ
1
Figure
1.4.
Total
internal
reflection.
1
2
Figure
1.5.
Fresnel
lens
(1)
and
conventional
lens
(2).
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Prologue
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Basic Principles of Light and Vision
- Chapter 2: Incandescent Lamps
- Chapter 3: Electrical Discharge Lamps
- Chapter 4: Solid-State Light Sources
- Chapter 5: Lasers
- Chapter 6: The Technologies
- Chapter 7: Luminaires
- Chapter 8: Illuminating Spaces
- Chapter 9: Light Sources and Health
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Back Cover
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