Some information

about the
electromagnetic waves

EM WAVES

Light is an emw and em disturbance propagates through space

at speed c=3x108 m/s.
Various regions of the em spectrum are referred to by particular names.
These are produced and detected by different methods. They are
classified according to wavelength or frequency or energy. (c=).
name

rays
X rays
uv
visible
ir
microwaves(ra
dar)

0.1 -10-14 nm
10 -10-4 nm
30-380 nm
380-770 nm
770 nm-1 mm
1mm30cm(ovens use
12cm),

Radio waves

Energy

2.3-4.0 eV
1.7-2.3 eV

naming them
as microwaves
is wrong,
wavelenght is
about cm.
>30 cm(UHF-TV,
VHF TV, FM and
Am radio

Near-infrared

NIR

commonly used in fiber optic

telecommunication, night vision
0.751.4m
devices such as night vision
goggles.
long-distance
1.4-3m
telecommunications.

Short-wavelength
SWIR
infrared
Mid-wavelength
MWIR 38m
infrared

Long-wavelength
infrared

LWIR

Far-infrared

FIR

In guided missile technology: the

Infrared signature of the target a
The "thermal imaging" region, in
ircraft, typically the jet engine
which sensors can obtain a
exhaust plume.
completely passive image of
objects only slightly higher in
temperature than room
temperature - for example, the
815m
human body - based on thermal
emissions only and requiring no
illumination such as the sun,
moon, or infrared illuminator.
This region is also called the
"thermal infrared."
151,000m

Emission
spectrum

Technically, color temperature refers to the temperature

to which one would have to heat a theoretical "black body"

R(Wlight
/ m2 ) of
Stefan
Boltzman
constant
in 2 J 4 .T 4
source to produce
the same
visual
color.

m .s.K