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Light Sources
Basics of Lighting Technologies and Applications
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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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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