LIGHT SOURCES

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List of light sources

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This is a list of sources of light, the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light sources produce photons from another energy source, such as heat, chemical reactions, or conversion of mass or a different frequency of electromagnetic energy, and include light bulbs and stars like the Sun. Reflectors (such as the moon, cat’s eyes, and mirrors) do not actually produce the light that comes from them.

Incandescence
Incandescence is the emission of light from a hot body as a result of its temperature.

Main article: Incandescence
Nernst lamp – Early form of lamp using an incandescent ceramic rod
Volcanic eruption

Volcanic eruption
Combustion
Main article: Combustion
Lamps
Argand lamp – Type of oil lamp (obsolete)
Carbide lamp – Acetylene-burning lamps
Coleman lantern – Series of pressure lamps
Betty lamp – Oil or grease burning lamp originating from Europe (error)[clarification needed]
Butter lamp – Lamps traditionally burning clarified yak butter
Flash-lamp – Electrically ignited photographic light source
Gas lighting – Type of artificial light
Gas mantle – Device for generating bright light when heated by a flame
Kerosene lamp – Type of lighting device that uses kerosene as a fuel
Lantern – Portable lighting devices
Limelight – Type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls (obsolete)
Oil lamp – Lamp used for lighting by burning oil

Oil lamp
Tilley lamp – Pressurized kerosene lamps made by the Tilley company in the UK
Other
Argon flash – Single-use source of very short and extremely bright flash of light – shock wave
Brazier – Container used to burn charcoal or other solid fuel
Bunsen burner – Laboratory device used to make fire from fuel and oxidizer gases
Candle – Wick embedded in solid flammable substance

Candle
Ember – A hot lump of slowly burning solid fuel, usually associated with a fire
Explosive – Substance that can explode
Fire – Rapid and hot oxidation of a material

Fire
Fire whirl – Whirlwind induced by and often composed of fire

Fire whirl
Fireworks – Low explosive pyrotechnic devices for entertainment

Fireworks
Flamethrower – Ranged incendiary device designed to project a controllable stream of fire
Incandescent light bulb – Electric light bulb with a resistively heated wire filament
Muzzle flash – Light created by gunfire
Rubens tube – Physics apparatus for demonstrating acoustic standing waves in a tube
Torch – Stick with a flaming end used as a source of light
Nuclear and high-energy particle
Main articles: Nuclear physics and Particle physics
Annihilation – Collision of a particle and its antiparticle
Nuclear reaction – Transformation of a nuclide to another
Nuclear fission – Nuclear reaction splitting an atom into multiple parts
Nuclear fusion – Process of combining atomic nuclei
Nuclear weapon – Explosive weapon that utilizes nuclear reactions
Cherenkov radiation – Electromagnetic radiation from a charged particle in a medium
Synchrotron radiation – Electromagnetic radiation
Free-electron laser – Laser using electron beam in vacuum as gain medium
Bremsstrahlung – Electromagnetic radiation due to deceleration of charged particles
Celestial and atmospheric

Nebula and stars

Starry sky, the Milky Way, and a shooting star
Main article: Astronomical object
Astronomical objects
Sun (sunlight, solar radiation)
Stellar corona – Outermost layer of a star’s atmosphere
Photosphere – Star’s outer shell from which light is radiated
Star (Starlight)
Nova / supernova / hypernova
Galaxy – Large gravitationally bound system of stars and interstellar matter
Milky Way – Galaxy containing the Solar System
Star cluster – Group of stars
Deep-sky object – Any astronomical object that is not an individual star
Quasar – Active galactic nucleus containing a supermassive black hole
Accretion disk – Structure formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a massive central body
Blazar – Very compact quasi-stellar radio source
Magnetar – Type of neutron star with a strong magnetic field
Pulsar – Rapidly rotating neutron star
Atmospheric entry – Passage of an object through the gases of an atmosphere from outer space
Meteor

Meteor
Meteor shower – Celestial event caused by streams of meteoroids entering Earth’s atmosphere
Bolide – Extremely bright meteor
Earth-grazing fireball – Meteoroid that enters Earth’s atmosphere and leaves again
Lightning (Plasma)
Sprite (lightning) – Electrical discharges above thunderstorm clouds
Ball lightning – Atmospheric electrical phenomenon
Upper-atmospheric lightning – Rare transient luminous events that occur over tops of thunder storms
Dry lightning – Thunderstorm where little to no precipitation reaches the ground
Aurora – Atmospheric effect caused by the solar wind
Luminescence
Main article: Luminescence
Luminescence is emission of light by a substance not resulting from heat.

Bioluminescence
Main article: Bioluminescence
Bioluminescence is light resulting from biochemical reaction by a living organism.

Aequorea victoria – Species of hydrozoan
Antarctic krill – Species of krill
Biophoton – Photon from a biological source
Cavitation bubbles made by mantis shrimps[citation needed]
Firefly – Family of beetles
Foxfire – Fungal bioluminescence
Glowworm – Bioluminescent insect larva
Luciferase – Enzyme family
Panellus stipticus – Species of fungus in the family Mycenaceae found in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America

Bioluminescent panellus stipticus
Parchment worm – Genus of annelid worms
Piddock – Family of bivalves
Anglerfish – Bony fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes
Cathodoluminescence
Main article: Cathodoluminescence
Cathodoluminescence is light resulting from a luminescent material being struck by electrons.

Chemiluminescence
Main article: Chemiluminescence

Chemiluminescence glow sticks
Chemiluminescence is light resulting from a chemical reaction.

Cryoluminescence
Main article: Cryoluminescence
Cryoluminescence is the emission of light when an object is cooled.

Crystalloluminescence
Main article: Crystalloluminescence
Crystalloluminescence is light produced during crystallization.

Electric discharge (electrical energy)
Main article: Electric arc
Arc lamp – Lamp that produces light by an electric arc
Flashtube – Incoherent light source
Main article: Electrostatic discharge
Lightning – Weather phenomenon involving electrostatic discharge
Electric spark – Abrupt electrical discharge through an ionised channel
Main article: Gas-discharge lamp
Electrodeless lamp – Gas-discharge lamp using electric and magnetic fields to transfer energy to the gas inside
Excimer lamp – Ultraviolet source based on spontaneous emission of excimer molecules.
Fluorescent lamp – Lamp using fluorescence to produce light
Compact fluorescent lamp – Fluorescent lamps with folded tubes, often with built-in ballast
Tanning lamp – Device which produces ultraviolet light used for indoor tanning
Blacklight – Light fixture that emits long-wave ultraviolet light and very little visible light
Geissler tube – Early gas-discharge lamp
Moore tube – American electrical engineer and inventor (Obsolete)
Ruhmkorff lamp – Artificial light sources powered by ionized gas electric discharge (Obsolete)
High-intensity discharge lamp – Type of electric lamp/bulb

High-intensity discharge lamp
Carbon arc lamp – Lamp that produces light by an electric arc
Ceramic metal-halide lamp
Hydrargyrum medium-arc iodide lamp – used for stage lighting
Mercury-vapor lamp – Light source using an electric arc through mercury vapor
Metal-halide lamp – Type of lamp
Sodium-vapor lamp – Type of electric gas-discharge lamp
Sulfur lamp – Lighting system
Xenon arc lamp – Gas discharge lamp that produces intense white light
Hollow-cathode lamp – spectral line source used in physics and chemistry
Induction lighting – Gas-discharge lamp using electric and magnetic fields to transfer energy to the gas inside
Sulfur lamp – Lighting system

Sulfur lamps
Neon and argon lamps – Light source based on gas discharge
Dekatron – Early and obsolete type of computer memory

Dekatron
Nixie tube – Electronic numeric display device
Plasma lamp – Type of electrodeless gas-discharge lamp
Xenon flash lamp – Incoherent light source
Electrochemiluminescence
Main article: Electrochemiluminescence
Electrochemiluminescence is light resulting from an electrochemical reaction.

Electroluminescence
Main article: Electroluminescence
Electroluminescence is light resulting from an electric current being passed through a substance.

Light-emitting diodes
Light-emitting diode – Semiconductor and solid-state light source
Organic light-emitting diode – Diode that emits light from an organic compound
Polymer light-emitting diode – Diode that emits light from an organic compound
AMOLED, Active matrix OLED – typical OLED addressing scheme for color OLED displays. (Display content) Has to be periodically refreshed to maintain picture, as opposed to for example Electronic paper – Display technology for use in mobile devices and televisions
Light-emitting electrochemical cell – solid-state device that generates light from an electric current
Electroluminescent wire – Capacitive light source in the form of a wire
Field-induced polymer electroluminescent
Laser – Device which emits light via optical amplification

Lasers
Chemical laser – Laser that obtains energy from chemical reactions
Dye laser – Equipment using an organic dye to emit coherent light
Free-electron laser – Laser using electron beam in vacuum as gain medium
Gas dynamic laser – Laser based on differences in relaxation velocities of molecular vibrational states
Gas laser – Laser in which electricity is discharged through gas
Ion laser – Type of gas laser
Laser diode – Semiconductor laser
Laser excited phosphor – Devices and processes that produce light Long distance beam light
Metal-vapor laser
Nonlinear optics – Branch of physics
Quantum well laser – Laser diode in which the active region is so narrow that quantum confinement occurs
Quantum dot laser – Semiconductor laser that uses quantum dots as the active laser medium
Ruby laser – Solid-state laser
Solid-state laser – Laser which uses a solid gain medium
Mechanoluminescence
Main article: Mechanoluminescence
Mechanoluminescence is light resulting from a mechanical action on a solid.

Triboluminescence, light generated when bonds in a material are broken when that material is scratched, crushed, or rubbed
Fractoluminescence, light generated when bonds in certain crystals are broken by fractures
Piezoluminescence, light produced by the action of pressure on certain solids
Sonoluminescence, light resulting from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound
Photoluminescence
Main article: Photoluminescence
Photoluminescence is light resulting from absorption of photons.

Fluorescence, the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation
Phosphorescence, the delayed re-emission of light by substance that has absorbed it
Radioluminescence

Radioluminescent
Main article: Radioluminescence
Radioluminescence is light resulting from bombardment by ionizing radiation.

Radium dial
Tritium radioluminescence
Thermoluminescence
Main article: Thermoluminescence
Thermoluminescence is light from the re-emission of absorbed energy when a substance is heated.

See also
List of reflected light sources
Luminous efficacy
Photometry (optics)
References
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Knowing that the Australian Britannica leaves out some Australian history, you can rest assured that the list above is not exhaustive!