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. 2018 Oct 27;57(4):511–524. doi: 10.2486/indhealth.2018-0030

Table 1. Technical details and photometric values for BWL, RWL, and NWL light conditions.

Variable BWL RWL NWL
Nominal correlated color temperature (K) 12,000 2,700 4,000
Actual correlated color temperature (K) 9,733 2,564 3,730
Color Rendering Index (CRI Ra) 83 81.9 82.9
Chromaticity coordinates (x,y) 1931 CIE chromaticity coordinates 0.281, 0.2926 0.4831, 0.4327 0.395, 0.3899
Photopic illuminance (lx) 317 333 332
Cyanopic lx (α-opic lx) 469 73 180
Melanopic lx (α-opic lx) 388 115 195
Rhodopic lx (α-opic lx) 371 169 236
Chloropic lx (α-opic lx) 345 259 291
Erythropic lx (α-opic lx) 314 326 319
Photon flx (photons/cm2.s) 3.18 × 1014 2.7 × 1014 2.7 × 1014
Irradiance (µW/cm2) 121 92 96

BWL: blue-enriched white light; RWL: red saturated white light; NWL: normal white light.