Fractional bandwidth normalization for optical spectra with application to the solar blackbody spectrum

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 413-416

  Moddel, Garret ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

SOLAR BLACKBODY SPECTRUM;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 0038164976     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000413     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Statistical Physics, 3rd ed. (Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 1980), pp. 184-187.
2. This is the irradiance at the surface of the Sun. To obtain the irradiance intercepting the Earth, this expression must be divided by the square of the ratio of the Earth-Sun distance to the radius of the Sun.
3. B. H. Soffer and D. K. Lynch, “Some paradoxes, errors, and resolutions concerning the spectral optimization of human vision,” Am. J. Phys. 67, 946-953 (1999).
4. Although the spectrum is centered in the red, we do not perceive the Sun as being red. This can be explained by the fact that the spectrum covers our visible range and as a result of our physiological ability to redefine perceived colors with reference to the illumination source. See R. Mausfeld, “Color perception: from Grassmann codes to a dual code for object and illumination colors,” in Color Vision, Perspectives from Different Disciplines, W. G. K. Backhaus, R. Kliegl, and J. S. Werner, eds. (de Gruyter, Berlin, 1998), Chap. 12.
5. M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics (Pergamon, Oxford, 1980), p. 333. Ref. 5, pp. 406-407.