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DeismAccountant OP t1_ixtilm5 wrote

Reply to comment by purpleoctopuppy in What is the the irradiance (W/m^2) range of human vision? by DeismAccountant

So 10^-12 as the minimum? Thanks!

Now how to make that apply to 1,000,000nm and 10nm respectively 😅

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ozspook t1_ixu1u4f wrote

>1,000,000nm

is radio, specifically 240GHz millimeter band which would be radar, basically.

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DeismAccountant OP t1_ixvjoqy wrote

It’s the peak/maximum of infrared too though? It equals 1mm, and is where infrared and radio meet?

Edit: Microwaves before Radio.

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ozspook t1_ixx9sae wrote

It's around the high end of the red-shifted Cosmic Microwave Background, your usual sensors for such are MEMS radiometer arrays or graphene bolometers cooled to near absolute zero.

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DeismAccountant OP t1_ixxk2zz wrote

What would you propose as an alternative maximum to infrared then? 300,000nm? 20,000nm?

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