Light Pollution, Blue Light, Stress and Insomnia: Dark Sides of the LED Light? Laurent Canale To cite this version: Laurent Canale. Light Pollution, Blue Light, Stress and Insomnia: Dark Sides of the LED Light?. International Journal of Electronics and Electrical Engineering Systems, Association Algérienne de Génie Electrique et Electronique, 2020, 3 (3). hal-03164045 HAL Id: hal-03164045 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03164045 Submitted on 10 Mar 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Light Pollution, Blue Light, Stress and Insomnia: Dark Sides of the LED Light? Dr Laurent CANALE CNRS Research Engineer, IEEE Senior Member LAPLACE, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INPT, UPS, Toulouse, France 118, Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France E-mail :
[email protected] Abstract - During decades, for indoor applications, a bulb was replaced by the same bulb, 100W, 60W or less, incandescent or sometimes linear fluorescent, and only mattered the shape, the power or the type of socket... The LEDs is the ultimate home revolution in lighting technologies and, as every newcomer, it comes with its censors and detractors. Light pollution, photo-biological risk to the eye, environmental impact or insomnia are not exclusive to LED lamps; but its remarkable arrival, in a world where evolutions are discreet, focus questions and suspicions.