List of light sources
This is a list of sources of light, including both natural and artificial processes that emit light. The list is limited to sources of light, as opposed to objects such as the Moon that provide light by reflection.
Electric discharge
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- Electrodeless lamp
- Excimer lamp
- Fluorescent lamp
- Compact fluorescent lamp
- Tanning lamp
- Black lights
- Geissler tube
- Moore tube (Defunct)
- "Ruhmkorff" lamp (Defunct)
- High-intensity discharge lamp
- Hollow-cathode lamp
- Induction lighting
- Neon and argon lamps
- Dekatron (Defunct)
- Nixie tube
- Plasma lamp
- Xenon flash lamp
Incandescence
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- Black-body radiation
- Carbon button lamp (Defunct)
- Earthquake light
- Halogen lamp
- Incandescent light bulb
- Lava
- Nernst lamp (Defunct)
- Volcanic eruption
Combustion
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Lamps
- Argand lamp (Defunct)
- Argon flash
- Carbide lamp (Defunct)
- Betty lamp (Defunct)
- Butter lamp
- Flash-lamp (Defunct)
- Gas lighting
- Gas mantle
- Kerosene lamps
- Lanterns
- Limelights (Defunct)
- Oil lamps
- Tilley lamp (Defunct)
Other
- Bunsen burner
- Candle
- Embers
- Explosives
- Fire
- Fire whirl
- Fireworks
- Flamethrower
- Muzzle flash
- Rubens' tube
- Torch
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Nuclear and high-energy particle
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- Annihilation
- Bremsstrahlung
- Čerenkov radiation
- Cyclotron radiation
- Fusor
- Nuclear explosion
- Scintillation
- Synchrotron light source
Celestial and atmospheric
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Luminescence
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Luminescence is emission of light by a substance not resulting from heat.
Chemiluminescence
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Chemiluminescence is light resulting from a chemical reaction.
Bioluminescence
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Bioluminescence is light resulting from biochemical reaction by a living organism.
- Aequorea victoria
- Antarctic krill
- Cavitation bubbles
- Foxfire
- Glowworm
- Luciferase
- Panellus stipticus
- Parchment worm
- Piddock
Electrochemiluminescence
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Electrochemiluminescence is light resulting from electrochemical reaction.
Crystalloluminescence
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Crystalloluminescence is light produced during crystallization.
Electroluminescence
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Electroluminescence is light resulting of an electric current passed through a substance.
- Light-emitting diodes
- Organic light-emitting diodes
- Polymer light-emitting diodes
- AMOLED
- Light-emitting electrochemical cell
- Electroluminescent wires
- Field-induced polymer electroluminescent
- Laser
Cathodoluminescence
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Cathodoluminescence is light resulting from a luminescent material being struck by the electrons.
Mechanoluminescence
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Mechanoluminescence is light resulting from a mechanical action on a solid.
Triboluminescence, a type of mechanoluminescence, is light generated when bonds in a material are broken when that material is scratched, crushed, or rubbed.
Fractoluminescence, a type of mechanoluminescence, is light generated when bonds in certain crystals are broken by fractures.
Piezoluminescence, a type of mechanoluminescence, is light produced by the action of pressure on certain solids.
Sonoluminescence, a type of mechanoluminescence, is light resulting from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.
Photoluminescence
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Photoluminescence is light resulting from absorption of photons.
Fluorescence, a type of photoluminescence, is the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation.
Unlike fluorescence, a phosphorescent material does not immediately re-emit the radiation it absorbs.
Radioluminescence
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Radioluminescence is light resulting from bombardment by ionizing radiation.
Thermoluminescence
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Thermoluminescence is light from the re-emission of absorbed energy when a substance is heated.
Cryoluminescence
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Cryoluminescence is the emission of light when an object is cooled.
See also
External links
- A CD spectrometer Color spectrographs of common light sources
- The Double Amici Prism Hand-Held Spectroscope in Practice - Dozens of raw visible spectra of a wide variety of light sources.
