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Generation and control of light

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Author

Editor

  • Lars Olof Björn

Summary, in English

This chapter describes various kinds of artificial light sources of interest to the photobiologist (natural light is described in separate chapters), starting with incandescent lamps and their properties, and continuing with gas discharge lamps, flashlamps and lasers. After a section on light filters the chapter concludes with a treatment of monochromators, in which the mode of action of a grating is explained based on Young's double slit experiment treated in Chapter 1.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

51-67

Publication/Series

Photobiology — The science of life and light, 2nd. ed.

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Biological Sciences

Keywords

  • Sun Lamp Incandescent lamp Discharge lamp Flashlamp Light-emitting diode Laser Filter Interference filter Monochromator Grating Bandwidth

Status

Published

Project

  • Photobiology

Research group

  • Photobiology

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-0-387-72654-0