Methods are described for measuring the light emitted by an emulsion of luminous bacteria of given thickness, and calculating the light emitted by a single bacterium, measuring 1.1 x 2.2 micra, provided there is no absorption of light in the emulsion. At the same time, the oxygen consumed by a single bacterium was measured by recording the time for the bacteria to use up .9 of the oxygen dissol...

PURPOSE Measurements concerning the usability or safety of optical equipment are based on assumptions regarding luminous efficiency. The current luminous efficiency functions are derived from human sensitivity experiments taken at low light levels compared with the outdoor daytime environment. The amount of error induced by extrapolating from low light level data to high light level application...

Luminous-efficiency functions for small fields were measured with flicker photometry and heterochromatic brightness-matching methods for the same two subjects. For the larger stimuli (22.9 and 11.5'), the luminous-efficiency functions differed between the two methods. Those obtained by flicker photometry showed a simple narrow shape, whereas those obtained by heterochromatic brightness matching...

To improve the luminance and luminous efficiency of a surface-discharge alternate current plasma display panel (ac PDP), auxiliary voltage pulses were applied to the address electrode during a sustain-period. The luminance and luminous efficiency exhibited maximum values at an address voltage of 100 V and pulse width of 1 s. An improved luminance of 21.4% and luminous efficiency of 24% were sim...

The luminous-efficiency functions for a centrally viewed 10 degrees field were measured by heterochromatic brightness matching for various retinal illuminance levels of a reference field at various adapting levels. The subject was always presented with a 45 degrees white adapting light except when the test field for brightness matching was substituted for the adapting field for 500 msec. In ord...

The ambient light of cockpit is usually under mesopic vision, and it’s mainly related to the cockpit’s interior. In this paper, a SB model is come up to simplify the relationship between the mesopic luminous efficiency and the different photometric and colorimetric variables in the cockpit. SelfOrganizing Map (SOM) network is demonstrated classifying and selecting samples. A Back-Propagation (B...

A high-quality white light source requires high luminous efficacy (lumens per input watt). Theoretically, in the “greenyellow” spectral region (with a peak wavelength at around 555 nm), the luminous efficiency (lumens per radiant watt) reaches a maximum based on the luminous efficiency function, V(λ), and can potentially generate high luminous efficacy. Unfortunately, the light-emitting diode (...