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Golnoor Lighting Handbook

Standards, definitions, and lighting industry experience in one reference handbook.

Golnoor Lighting Handbook

Why this handbook

A resource for electrical engineers and lighting designers

Golnoor created this lighting handbook to advance technical knowledge in lighting and share experience with electrical and lighting engineers.

Because light is interdisciplinary, university courses often cover it only briefly. With diverse lighting standards and evolving light sources, a complete scientific reference was needed. The Golnoor handbook team, with experience in national lighting standards committees, prepared this resource for professionals and enthusiasts.

The handbook aims to make lighting-industry tables and standards easy to access, with precise definitions and concise explanations of luminaires and light sources. It is reviewed annually when needed, with new chapters added over time.

Contents

Golnoor Lighting Handbook chapters

01

Chapter One

What is light?

02

Chapter Two

Physics of light

03

Chapter Three

Human-centric lighting

04

Chapter Four

Light sources

05

Chapter Five

Standard terminology

06

Chapter Six

Standard parameters

07

Chapter Seven

Luminaire components

08

Chapter Eight

Luminaire categories

09

Chapter Nine

Road lighting

10

Chapter Ten

Emergency lighting

11

Chapter Eleven

Light and plant growth

Authors

Golnoor Lighting Handbook authorship team

Leila Estaki

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering – Industrial Design

Reza Javadi Rad

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering – Manufacturing

Masoud Soleimani

M.Sc. Agricultural Engineering

Mojtaba Shafiei

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering – Electronics

Majid Abbasi

M.Sc. Materials Engineering

Manouchehr Fatehi

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering – Power

Ali Lotfalian

M.Sc. Electro-Optics – Laser

Mohammad Maleki

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering – Electronics

Mozhdeh Moradkhani

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering – Electronics

Tahereh Mohammadpour

Quality Control Specialist

Masoud Mehrshad

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering