DIRECTLY VIEWABLE LUMINAIRE

摘要

The present invention provides a luminaire comprising an housing having thermally separate compartments for an electronics portion and a lighting portion. These thermally separate compartments can provide a means for providing thermal isolation between the respective components, namely the electronics portion and the lighting portion. In this manner thermal interaction between these portions can be reduced, thereby improving performance of the luminaire. The lighting portion comprises a plurality of light-emitting elements and further includes optics for the manipulation of illumination created by the light-emitting elements. A power supply for supply of energy to the light-emitting elements and a controller for controlling application of energy from a power source to the light-emitting elements is provided in the electronics portion and can be thermally separated within the electronics portion. Moreover, an optical device comprising two linear diffuser elements can be used to further improve the light emission characteristics of the light-emitting elements thereby providing a directly viewable luminaire wherein the illumination produced by point light sources appears uniform along the length of the luminaire.