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Light sources and detectors

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Light sources for spectroscopy may be divided into broad-band (or continuum) sources suitable for intensity standards or as backgrounds for absorption spectroscopy, and narrow-band (or line) sources for emission spectroscopy.Consideration of lasers is deferred to Chapter 8. Before discussing individual types of light source it is useful to define ‘light intensity’ and to deal briefly with some general concepts such as temperature, excitation energy and equilibrium.

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Thorne, A.P. (1988). Light sources and detectors. In: Spectrophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1193-2_4

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