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william herschel discovering infrared problem

when william herschel conducted the experiment of separating white light with a prism and measuring the different colors, he put a thermometer past the red color as a control finding it to pick up the ...
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How wide is a pre- and post-selected light beam?

To pre-select the beam, we will require that it pass through two holes A and B. This will allow us to select both a diameter and a divergence angle. To post-select the beam, we will require that it ...
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Photometer: measured Irradiance L converted to photon rate

I am conducting an experiment in which the power meter reading of $410\,nm$ narrow bandpass stimulus is noted to be 30 $\frac{\mu W}{cm^2}$ at a distance of 1 inch away from the light source. I wish ...
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Strange light polarization effect?

I spent a while working with MgF2-windowed xenon flash / discharge lamps. Primarily, I characterized their spectra with two normal-incidence spectrometers against a calibrated Deuterium lamp. In this ...
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Light filter for an experiment

I'm looking for a filter that lets through as many wavelengths as possible (from 200 to 5000 nm). Is that even possible?