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Design Tradeoffs in a Handheld, Battery-Powered Optical Device

Simple Devices aren’t Simple At first glance, a handheld light-emitting device appears straightforward: an array of LEDs, a battery, and a housing. In practice, aligning such a device with the optical power densities commonly referenced in published light therapy research presents a set of nontrivial engineering constraints. To illustrate why, consider irradiance on the order […]