Category:Light sources
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Various sources of light including gas lighting, fluorescent lighting and incandescent lighting | Various sources of light including gas lighting, fluorescent lighting and incandescent lighting | ||
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Revision as of 18:49, 6 February 2012
Various sources of light including gas lighting, fluorescent lighting and incandescent lighting
Subcategories
- Electric discharge lighting - lighting the occurs through sending an electrical discharge through an ionized gas
- Electric lighting - creating lighting using electri charges
- Electroluminescent devices - devices that contain materials that illuminate in response to an electric current or electric field
- Fluorescent lighting - lighting that uses the rarefied gases in a tube to excite fluorescent materials that coat the tube
- Gas lighting - using a gas to produce light through combustion
- Incandescent lighting - lighting the comes from heating a filament wire to a high temperature until it glows
- Neon lighting - lighting from electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain neon or other gases
- Stray light - light in an optical system that was not intended by the design
- Superluminescent diodes - or SLD, an edge-emitting semiconductor light based on superluminescence
- Ultraviolet sources - sources that emit light in the range of 10 to 400 nm
Subcategories
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