Lummer-Brodhun

Photometer

Aim : To determine the transmission coefficient of

the fiber glass strip with the help of Lummer-
Brodhun photometer
Team Members
• Siddhant Singh
• Shubhangi Agrawal
• Shobhit Das
• Satyam Kumar
• Kiran Kumar
• Sheryash Royzada
Introduction to the photometer
• A photometer is an instrument that measures the strength of
electromagnetic radiation in the range from ultraviolet to infrared and
including the visible spectrum.
• Photometers measure:
– Illuminance
– Irradiance
– Light absorption
– Scattering of light
– Reflection of light
– Fluorescence
– Phosphorescence
– Luminescence
Lummer Brodhun Photometer

• Our LB Photometer is best in its class and precisely

developed.
• LB Photometer is used to compare the intensities of two
light sources. This is achieved by using a combination of
specially made prisms knows as Lummer Brodhun Cube.
• Also called “the light weighing machine”
Construction of Lummer Brodhun Photometer

• This Photometer consists of a metal box with two

entrances and an eyepiece as well as a slot which allows
a white magnesium carbonate disk to be mounted
between the two entrances.
• Light from each of the two sources enters through its
respective entrance and illuminates one side of the white
disk.
• The light that is reflected off each side of the disk is
directed through a right angled prism and towards a
Lummer-Brodhun cube.
DIAGRAM OF LUMMER BRODHUN PHOTOMETER

Ray Diagram in a Lummer Lummer Bodhun Photometer in

Brodhun photometer real world
Working of Lummer Boudhun Photometer

• The heart of the Lummer Boudhun photometer is the

Boudhun cube
• The Bodhun cube consists of the two triangular prism.
One of them is slightly polished to give it a convex shape.
• one Prism generates a halo of the light while the other
generates the light spot.
• When the intensity of the both lights are equal, then the
whole screen is seen with a single light intensit.
Experimental Set-Up
 Observations
Sr Position Of Position of Position of the Position of Mean Psition of second
No. The first the second lamp the second Position of lamp after
Lamp (A) photomete (cm) lamp after the second introducing glass
(cm) r (B) 180 degree lamp sheet (cm)
(cm) rotation (cm) (C)

One After Mean

Position 180 (X)
rotati
on
0 60 111.6 104.3 107.95 104.4 96.3 100.3
1 5
2 5 60 109.4 100 104.7 100 93.8 96.9
3 10 60 104.3 96.6 100.45 97 93 95
4 15 60 100.5 94.8 97.65 93.4 92.8 93.1
5 20 60 95.9 91.8 93.85 88.9 85.1 87
6 25 60 90.0 87.0 88.5 84.5 82 83.75
Calculation

S.NO R1 (B-A) R2 (C-B) R3 (X-B)

(cm) (cm) (cm)
1. 60 47.95 40.35
2. 55 44.70 36.90
3. 50 40.45 35
4. 45 37.65 33.1
5. 40 33.85 27
6. 35 28.5 23.75

Mean r1 = 47.5
Mean r2 = 38.85
mean r3 = 32.68
Result

C1/C2=(R1/R2)2=1.49
transmission coefficient of the Fibre Sheet=70.75%
Transmission coefficient: The ratio of output light intensity to
the input light intensity.
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