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Spectrum with peaks labelled taken with an Ocean Optics HR2000 spectrometer of ambient light provided by fluorescent lamps. Spectrum taken by me (apparently en:user:Deglr6328). The spectrometer appears to be about ~.6 to .8 nm off judging from the location of known peaks.
By definition, visible light is the part of the EM spectrum the human eye is the most sensitive to. Visible light (and near-infrared light) is typically absorbed and emitted by electrons in molecules and atoms that move from one energy level to another. This action allows the chemical mechanisms that underlie human vision and plant photosynthesis.
The spectrum appears only when these edges are close enough to overlap. In the early 19th century, the concept of the visible spectrum became more definite, as light outside the visible range was discovered and characterized by William Herschel and Johann Wilhelm Ritter (ultraviolet), Thomas Young, Thomas Johann Seebeck, and others. [17]
[9] [10] Under ideal laboratory conditions, people can see infrared up to at least 1,050 nm; [11] children and young adults may perceive ultraviolet wavelengths down to about 310–313 nm. [12] [13] [14] Plant growth is also affected by the colour spectrum of light, a process known as photomorphogenesis.
While an ordinary camera captures light across three wavelength bands in the visible spectrum, red, green, and blue (RGB), spectral imaging encompasses a wide variety of techniques that go beyond RGB. Spectral imaging may use the infrared, the visible spectrum, the ultraviolet, x-rays, or some combination of the
Spectroradiometry is a technique in Earth and planetary remote sensing, which makes use of light behaviour, specifically how light energy is reflected, emitted, and scattered by substances, to explore their properties in the electromagnetic (light) spectrum and identify or differentiate between them. [1]
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Light_spectrum.png licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0-migrated, GFDL, GFDL-en, GFDL-self-en 2008-03-11T08:51:05Z Rrostrom 327x440 (30985 Bytes) Update of original upload. Some of the unit prefixes in the wavelength column were wrong.