Radiometry

doi:10.1117/3.2553485.ch16

Radiometry

Book: Photonics Rules of Thumb, Third Edition

Author(s): John Lester Miller, Katie Schwertz, Edward J. Friedman, John N. Sanders-Reed, Brian K. McComas

Published: 2020

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2553485.ch16

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Abstract

Radiometry is the study of the creation, transport, and absorption of electromagnetic radiation, and the wavelength-dependent properties of these processes. The term is also often used to include the detection and determination of the quantity, quality, and effects of such radiation. The term photometry describes these phenomena for the visible portion of the spectrum only. Photometry and its terms and dimensions are a result of normalizing (or attempting to normalize) the measurement of light to the response of the human eye.