Light-emitting
diode module, LED module, which is configured to emit
white light, wherein the LED module has: a
blue light-emitting
diode (30) configured to emit
blue light with a first peak
wavelength in a range of 420 nm to 465 nm; at least one
wavelength conversion material (54, 56) configured to convert part of the
blue light into converted light of another
wavelength; and a near-
infrared wavelength conversion material (58) configured to be excited by the blue light of the blue light-emitting
diode (30) to emit an additional light with a second peak wavelength in a range of 740 nm to 900 nm and a
full width at half maximum (FWHM) of 120 nm or less, wherein the near-
infrared wavelength conversion material (58) Ca(Al 12-x-y ,Ga y )O 19 :xCr 3+ (0≤x≤1, 0≤y≤6) exhibits, where the converted light, another part of the blue light, and the additional light combine to form the
white light, and wherein a spectrum of the
white light thus formed has a
peak intensity in the range of 740 nm to 900 nm, and the
peak intensity is greater than or equal to 4.5% of a
peak intensity in a
blue band from 420 nm to 465 nm.