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Measurements Techniques
September 23, 2009
Greg McKee
Director Systems Business Unit
Founded in 1979
70 employees, 20 with technical
degrees
ISO 9001:2000 certified
80,000 sq. ft. facility in New
Hampshire
Factory and sales office in
Shanghai
Systems Business
Unit
Standard and Custom solutions in
Light Measurement and Light
Sensor Calibration
Points to Note
LED sources generally cannot be separated from LED
luminaires by users.
Y Ohno, NIST
4 geometry
2 geometry
4 geometry
2 geometry
9.3.7 Calibration
calibrated against the illuminance or luminous intensity
standards traceable to national standards
shall be validated by measurement of total luminous flux
standard lamps traceable to national standards.
No standards
for outdoor
lighting
Model 0
Model 1
Model 2
Model 3
Model 4
Model 5
Model 6
Model 7
Data
Lighting Industry
Pulse vs. DC
LED Performance varies
with temperature
Y Zong, NIST
Y Zong, NIST
2 geometry
4 geometry
2 geometry
4 geometry
Substitution Method
Spectrometer
Spectrometer
Spectrometer
Spectrometer
t = s
Dt As
k
Ds At
2 Substitution Method
Reference
standard
Reference
standard
SSL
product
Cosineresponse
Cosineresponse
Auxiliary
lamp
Substitution
SSL
product
Baffle
Auxiliary
lamp
Baffle
Spectroradiometer
Spectroradiometer
Source: IESNA LM 79
2 geometry
1m or larger for compact
lamps
Less than 1/3 of sphere
diameter
How Practical?
Integrating Hemisphere
Spectraflect
Coating
Integrating Hemisphere
Base-UP lighting
Base-Side lighting
Base-Down lighting
Surface Radiance
i
Ls
M
A
Integrating Sphere (IS)
M=
1 (1 f )
m
M =
+
m (1 2 f )
1
(
1
2
f
)
1
Reflectance
0.70
0.60
0.50
0.40
0.30
0.20
0.10
0.00
350
400
450
500
550
600
650
700
750
nm
Integrating Sphere
Integrating Hemisphere
800
850
Smaller Footprint
Orientation: Test in same orientation
it will be used
More accurate
More sensitive
34
Tc (K)
Wavelength (nm)
36
Calibration
V
S
S
LT = T LR = T LR 0 R (1 t )
SR
SR
rR J R 0
Description
Symbol
value
units
type
DOF
Sensitivity
contribution
LR0
4.74E+00
1.65E+03
lm
25
1.00E+00
4.92E+00
VR
1.00E-05
2.68E-01
volt
16
4.39E+04
4.39E-01
rR
5.00E-06
1.00E-01
10
1.18E+05
5.88E-01
MI
1.44E-01
6.87E+00
NA
inf
6.39E-01
9.20E-02
1.41E-03
9.80E-04
NA
inf
1.71E+03
2.42E+00
SR
1.00E-10
7.45E-07
Amp
25
3.75E+08
3.75E-02
ST
1.00E-10
1.30E-07
Amp
25
2.22E+09
2.22E-01
ST
1.14E-09
1.30E-07
Amp
18
2.22E+09
2.52E+00
2.70
1.35%
Spatial Distribution
Thank You
Questions / Inquiries?
Greg McKee
Director Systems Business Unit
Labsphere
E-Mail: gmckee@labsphere.com