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Light Metrology: The Tools of the Trade

Pro-Lite serves customers working in lighting and illumination with a complete solution to measuring the brightness, colour, colour rendering and spatial distribution of lighting products in the architectural, automotive, avionics…

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Laservision Laser Safety Eyewear
Photonics

Laser Safety: Don’t Get Burnt

Since their invention in 1960, lasers have become ever more widely deployed in scientific research, in medicine, in industrial materials processing, in telecommunications as well as in numerous consumer applications…

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Light Metrology

How Many Megapixels are Too Many?

Pro-Lite provides a solution for almost any application in measuring the colour and brightness of light sources and displays. From a simple, inexpensive lux meter, to the world’s most advanced imaging photometers.

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Calibration
Light Metrology

The Dark Art of Light Metrology

The science of measuring the amount, spectral and spatial distribution of light emitted by a source (light bulb, screen, infrared lamp etc.) is generally poorly understood. Few university-level physics or engineering syllabuses review…

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Science & Technology

The Origins of the Metric System

A 250 gram piece of Roquefort purchased in France should weigh exactly the same as a 250 gram piece bought in New York City, although the American version will be labelled as weighing 8 ounces. The point of this (somewhat cheesy) reference is that sharing specifications in an unambiguous way is a basic tenet of modern business, but this was not always so. For the origins of modern commerce we must look to Napoleon Bonaparte, whose actions – in part – laid the foundations for free trade and the modern day European Union.

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