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Power Area Density in Inverse Spectra

Optics 2017-06-29 v1

Abstract

In recent years, inverse spectra were investigated with imaging optics and a quantitative description with radiometric units was suggested (Rang 2015). It could be shown that inverse spectra complement each other additively to a constant intensity level. Since optical intensity in radiometric units is a power area density, it can be expected that energy densities of inverse spectra also fulfill an inversion equation and complement each other. In this contribution we report findings on a measurement of the power area density of inverse spectra for the near ultraviolet, visible and the infrared spectral range. They show the existence of corresponding spectral regions ultra-yellow (UY) and infra-cyan (IC) in the inverted spectrum and thereby present additional experimental evidence for equivalence of inverse spectra beyond the visible range.

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@article{arxiv.1706.09063,
  title  = {Power Area Density in Inverse Spectra},
  author = {Matthias Rang and Johannes Grebe-Ellis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09063},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Revised according to requests of 2 referees. To be published in the Journal for General Philosophy of Science

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