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Agents used for testing light sources and natural daylight with visual and instrumental assessment using a set of white metameric pairs.
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A photometer that uses a wedge, marked to show its reduction of flux density, to make two light sources equal in intensity...
arc light source
In present usage, especially for spectroscopic identification, an arc between electrodes that serves as a radiation source....
bench photometer
A device used to compare the luminous intensities of two sources by locating a point between the two light sources where the...
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A type of optical communications technology dealing with the use of lasers and other light sources to send telecommunication...
photographic photometry
A form of photometric measurement, often used with light sources that are transparent or fluctuating, in which a...
comparison lamp
A reference incandescent light source having a luminous intensity that is used in photometry for comparison of other light...
photobiomodulation
A light therapy that utilizes nonionizing light sources, including lasers, LEDs, and broadband light, in the visible and...
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