Course detail
Lighting technology
FEKT-LSVTAcad. year: 2012/2013
This course introduces into the wide field of lighting technology and acquaints students with the most important aspects of this field. Students will learn the basic quantities and their relationships, properties of vision, which is in lighting technology primary aim pursued. Other topics include anatomy of the eye and visual functions, discomfort glare and its evaluation, limit states of vision, the colour theory, importance of light spectrum and spectral assessment of the light. From the perspective of electrical engineering is particularly important the part of electric light sources, where the students are familiarized with virtually all of today's lighting source technologies with an emphasis on the perspective ones, such as LEDs.
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Course curriculum
Relations among quantities, basic laws of light propagation
Light and vision, human eye, limits of vision, vision defects
Contrast, critical detail, eye recognition ability
Discomfort glare and its evaluation
Colour properties of light, colour theory
Normalized light sources, Colour rendering index Ra
Properties of material, principles of light propagation, principles of light measurement
Principles of light generation, electric lamp classification
Incandescent light sources, classical and halogen lamps
Discharge lamps, low pressure discharge lamps, fluorescent linear and compact lamps
High pressure discharge lamps
LED sources and other lamp types
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Relations among quantities, basic laws of light propagation
Light and vision, human eye, limits of vision, vision defects
Contrast, critical detail, eye recognition ability
Discomfort glare and its evaluation
Colour properties of light, colour theory
Normalized light sources, Colour rendering index Ra
Properties of material, principles of light propagation, principles of light measurement
Principles of light generation, electric lamp classification
Incandescent light sources, classical and halogen lamps
Discharge lamps, low pressure discharge lamps, fluorescent linear and compact lamps
High pressure discharge lamps
LED sources and other lamp types
Laboratory exercise
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Measurement of luminous intensity with comparing method
Evaluation of properties of illuminance meter cosine correction
Verifying of inverse square law
Measurement of light spectral properties
Measurement of colour properties of materials
Measurement of luminous intensity curves of small light sources
Measurement of voltage to luminous flux dependences
Measurement of display devices and their colour properties
Measurement of light chromaticity and voltage influences
Measurement of spectral properties of light-guide fibres
Measurement of directional reflection of materials for miniature luminaires
Measurement of luminous flux oscillation