THE HUMAN ULTRAVIOLET ACTION SPECTRUM

Abstract

A 5,000-watt xenon-mercury high pressure lamp was used to produce a continuous ultraviolet spectrum for the human eye. Instrumentation, calibration and experimental procedures are described. A total of 39 human eyes were exposed at eleven different 10 nm wavebands in the 220 to 310 nm wavelength range. Human data were compared to rabbit and primate data.