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Optica Publishing Group
  • Journal of Display Technology
  • Vol. 9,
  • Issue 6,
  • pp. 405-412
  • (2013)

Maximum White Luminous Efficacy of Radiation Versus Color Rendering Index and Color Temperature: Exact Results and a Useful Analytic Expression

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Abstract

We calculate numerically the spectral power distributions (SPDs) which maximize luminous efficacies of radiation (LERs) for white light of particular color rendering indices (<i>R<sub>a</sub></i>'s) and color temperatures (CTs). We find that, except for the very highest color rendering indices, the spectra are spiky rather than continuous. We present a useful analytic expression for the dependences of the maximum white luminous efficacy of radiation (MWLER) on <i>R<sub>a</sub></i> and CT and discuss these dependences. We propose that, for any white light source of a given <i>R<sub>a</sub></i> and CT, its absolute spectral efficiency is simply the ratio of its LER to the MWLER at that same <i>R<sub>a</sub></i> and CT. We discuss the absolute spectral efficiency, defined in this way, of various lighting technologies: incandescent, fluorescent, high-intensity discharge, and solid-state lighting. Finally, we discuss the possibility of alternative MWLERs based on alternative indices for color rendering quality.

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