Optics for Tunable White Light Fixtures
By Anthony Silvestris More and more light designers are striving for Human Centric Lighting (HCL) with a goal to produce natural daylight effects in indoor spaces. One way to achieve this is with tunable white light LED fixtures. The benefits of using...
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Fine Tuning Light with Direction Turning Film
There are not many lighting scenarios veteran designer Read Hunker hasn’t seen. The owner and founder of Colorado-based Light Notes has been “painting” with light for over 25 years, and his portfolio includes mystical spiritual gardens, custom wine cellars, and enhancing light-sensitive...
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Luminit Launches Low-Cost E-Lite Light Shaping Diffusers®
The competitively-price line of Light Shaping Diffusers gives budget-sensitive customers access to Luminit-level homogenization and transmission efficiency. TORRANCE, CA - July 30, 2020 – Luminit LLC, a privately held high technology company specializing in custom and standard holographic light shaping...
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Simplifying Downlight Design with Light Shaping Diffusers and Injection Molded Lenses
By Edward Udarbe Luminit’s Light Shaping Solutions are known as potent problem solvers when light designers, engineers, and OEMs need to get more out of less and increase the value of a single downlight design. For example, a can ceiling downlight may have a native...
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Preserving Polarization for Display Applications with Luminit Diffusers
By Richard Cordero Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) have dominated the display market with their long service life, power efficiency, and low market price and are commonly used in flat-panel computer monitors, TVs, notebook computers, mobile phones, navigation systems, and many...
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The Drive to Uniform, Stylish and Functional Automotive Lighting: Who’s Winning the Race?
by Suleyman Turgut Automotive lighting has seen some interesting shifts in recent years, particularly with taillight designs, and manufacturers continue to compete to see who can design the most eye-pleasing and sophisticated taillight assemblies. The race is on so let’s...
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How to Achieve Optimal Lighting with Lenticular Batwing LED Light Diffusers
Many lighting manufacturers recognize the key role tertiary optics such as Light Shaping Diffusers® play in creating more Human Centric Lighting (HCL) conditions, or lighting that considers the emotional and biological needs of humans. Batwing diffusers are an example of...
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Shaping Light to the Extreme with Luminit Light Shaping Diffusers®
by Edward Udarbe Luminit’s considerable library of circular, elliptical, and extreme elliptical beam angles accomplish different goals for different customers. Our elliptical angles, also called asymmetrical, are popular with lighting customers because these LED diffusers direct a light source in...
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Better Optics, Better View: How Luminit Is Advancing Near-to-Eye and Head Up Displays
Once labeled as “hype” only a few years ago, Augmented Reality glasses and vehicle Head-up Displays (HUDs) are beginning to penetrate the mainstream, and countless opportunities lie ahead. Luminit has been on the forefront of this promising technology since 2004,...
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Designing A New Kind of Holographic Lens
The road to market acceptance of smart glasses has been a bumpy one, but augmented reality smart glasses are evolving. Companies like North (formally Thalmic Labs) are delivering slick and stylish smart glasses that do amazing things. Called Focals by North (recently...
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