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In this chapter, we discuss radiometry (and photometry), blackbody sources, and line sources, and introduce several types of detector of optical radiation.
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Young, M. (1992). Light Sources and Detectors. In: Optics and Lasers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02697-7_4
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