CoreGLO™ carries LED light inside a thin, clear sheet and lets it out only where the design calls for it. That is how our wall lights, lamps and signs glow evenly from end to end, and why the sheet is nearly clear when it is off.
Luminity® is the product brand of Lucent Optics, the Sacramento company that invented and patented CoreGLO™.
Light enters an edge-lit sheet at one edge and has to cross it. In a standard engraved or laser-etched panel, every line it passes lets some of it out, so the farther it goes, the less is left. The design glows beside the LEDs and fades toward the far end, and the bigger the piece, the more it fades.
CoreGLO™ gives us control over where the light comes out, and how much: only a little beside the LEDs, more toward the far end. The light lasts the whole way across, so a wall light, a lamp or a sign glows evenly from end to end.
Illustration: how brightly each letter of a sign glows, from the LEDs to the far end.
Standard etching
CoreGLO™Real photos of the same Trippy Gecko design, lit from the base: standard laser etching fades toward the top, while CoreGLO™ glows evenly from base to top.
How CoreGLO™ works, part one
Instead of a bulb behind a shade, CoreGLO™ moves light inside a clear sheet and lets it out only where the design calls for it.
1. In at the edge. LEDs in a slim rail shine into the edge of the sheet. Nothing sits behind it.
2. Carried inside. The light bounces between the front and back of the sheet as it travels across, the way light travels through a fiber-optic cable.
3. Out where the design says. A light map decides where the light leaves the sheet and how much. Clear areas stay clear.
Light enters at the edge, travels inside the sheet, and comes out where the light map lets it. Where the sheet is clear, the light stays inside. Illustration, not to scale.
Each Luminity Architectural wall light starts as one flat sheet with a pattern on it. Where the pattern is, the sheet glows; where it is clear, it stays clear. The sheet is then bent one way, into a cone or an arc, so the pattern is not stretched or distorted.
Change the pattern and you change the light: a soft, even wash, a field of stars, fine contour lines, or your own artwork.
Kumiko
Starfield
Contour
Bespoke: your artworkRenders of Luminity Architectural wall lights in four of the eleven patterns.
The light map sends light where the design needs it, so it lands only where you want it.
Lucent Optics, the company that invented CoreGLO™, has built it into working light fixtures: wall sconces, ceiling panels and flexible lighting sheets. The Conal and the Wall Arc continue two of them: the tube sconce on a brushed spine and the curved sconce between two rails.
Off: nearly clear
On
Curved sconce
Ceiling panelReal photos of CoreGLO™ fixtures by Lucent Optics. CoreGLO™ lighting sheets were recognized in the Illuminating Engineering Society's 2021 Progress Report.
Our lamps and night lights use the same clear CoreGLO™ panels. On the night lights, the line art itself is the light map, so the drawing is the part that glows, evenly from the base to the top, while the rest of the panel stays see-through.
The Moon Lamp dims from a soft glow to full brightness. For more than one color, panels are stacked: the US Flag lamp layers three, each lit by its own LED color.
Moon Lamp
Night lightsCoreGLO™ lights every piece the same way: LEDs at the edge, light carried inside the panel, and a light map that decides where it comes out. What the light map does depends on the product.
Conal
Wall ArcOne printed sheet, bent into a cone or an arc, with the LEDs along a straight edge. The pattern decides where the light comes out, from a soft wash to a scatter of stars.
Made to order. Eleven patterns and five finishes, with list prices on each model; bulk and project orders by quote.
Off: a clear panel
On: the design glowsThe panel is clear, and the design itself is the light map: your logo, lettering or line art is the part that glows, while the rest stays see-through. The color comes from the LEDs. For more than one color at once, panels are stacked: the Flag lamp layers three, each lit in its own color.
Even from end to end. CoreGLO™ controls how much light leaves each part of the design, so the far end glows as brightly as the part beside the LEDs. A standard engraved sign has no such control, so it fades.
Off: a full-color print
On: the picture glowsThe picture is printed in full color on the panel. Its light map is designed from that picture, so light comes out where the image is bright and holds back where it is dark. Highlights glow and shadows stay dark.
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One printed sheet, shaped into light
Designs drawn in light
Line art drawn in light, evenly
Your design, drawn in light
The engineering, translated into reasons to leave it on and live with it every day.
The light map sends light where the design needs it, instead of lighting the whole sheet.
The light map lets out just enough light at every point, so the far end glows like the near end.
Where the sheet carries no design, it stays clear, so a switched-off wall light reads as a clear sheet.
Each wall light starts as one flat sheet, bent one way into a cone or an arc, so its pattern is not distorted.
The Moon Lamp dims from a soft glow to full brightness. For the architectural wall lights, dimming is chosen per project.
Lucent Optics, the company that invented and patented CoreGLO™, makes every piece in-house in Sacramento, California, from domestic and imported components. About Lucent Optics →
One technology, many forms: wall lights, lamps and signs. Shop what it makes, request a quote for a project, or build CoreGLO™ into a product of your own.
Artists: submit your work for a Luminity® collaboration.
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