Lighting apparatus

Abstract

There is provided a lighting apparatus comprising a light source, an ellipsoidal reflector having the first focal point at the light source, a spherical reflector having the center of sphere at the light source, a converging lens arranged at the outside of the spherical reflector and having a focal point thereof at the second focal point of the ellipsoid, and a light-controlling plate arranged in front of or at the back of the lighted object, so that the light beam projected on the part other than the effective lighted part of the lighted object is reflected by the light-controlling plate with various characteristics which are changeable such as the position or spectral distribution of the light resulting in lighting which is efficient and of uniform intensity and color on the lighted object.

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