A semi-spherical irradiance profiles meter used as a quality control device

Abstract

The design of a semi-spherical irradiance profile detector (SD) is shown. With this device, we obtain the distribution of illumination due to punctual sources in the visible range. This meter can be also used as quality control device for lamps and bulbs. We are interested in the distribution of the irradiance, instead of the total irradiance over a complete region, which is the information given by spherical meters, such as the Ulbrich spheres. The obtained discrete profiles corresponds to the irradiance, as equivalent to the voltage intensity detected in semispherical detector basic sensor. These voltage values permit us to obtain the corresponding profile to each source and give as the capability to chose the better sources for specifics tasks.