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INSTRUMENTAL TECHNIQUE PRESENTATION Xenon arc lamp Jyoti Sarita Mohanty 09-01-2016 What is Xenon arc lamp? Xenon arc lamp is a gas discharge lamp where electric power is converted into light by an arc discharge in a xenon atmosphere at high


  1. INSTRUMENTAL TECHNIQUE PRESENTATION Xenon arc lamp Jyoti Sarita Mohanty 09-01-2016

  2. What is Xenon arc lamp?  Xenon arc lamp is a gas discharge lamp where electric power is converted into light by an arc discharge in a xenon atmosphere at high pressure.  It produces bright white light that closely resembles natural sunlight.  Xenon has the highest overall conversion efficiency.  used in movie projectors in theatres, in searchlights, and for specialized uses in industry and research laboratories. Xenon arc lamps can be roughly divided into three categories: 1. Continuous-output xenon short-arc lamps 2. Continuous-output xenon long-arc lamps 3. Xenon flash lamps (which are usually considered separately)

  3. History of arc lamp  Carbon arc lamp was the first electric light invented by Humphry Davy in the early 1800s. This was the first widely-used and commercially successful form of electric lamp.  1875 Pavel Yablochkov had developed the Yablochkov Candle which was the first reliable carbon arc lamp and was used in Paris.  1870s-1890s Elihu Thomson and E.W. Rice Jr improved many parts of the arc light system both in DC and AC power.  Then xenon short-arc lamps were invented in the 1940s in Germany and introduced in 1951 by Osram. First launched in the 2 kW size and now it is upto 15 kW.

  4. Xenon arc lamp construction  There is a fused quartz envelope with thoriated tungsten electrodes. Fused quartz is the only economically feasible material currently available that can withstand the high pressure and high temp.  the tungsten electrodes are welded to strips of pure molybdenum metal or Invar alloy, which are then melted into the quartz to form the envelope seal.  Because of the very high power levels involved, large lamps are water-cooled, An O-ring seals off the tube, so that the naked electrodes do not contact the water.  In order to achieve maximum efficiency, the xenon gas inside short-arc lamps is maintained at an extremely high pressure — up to 30 atmospheres — which poses safety concerns, large xenon short-arc lamps are normally shipped in protective shields.

  5. The mechanism of light generation  In a pure xenon lamp, light is generated within a tiny, pinpoint-sized cloud of plasma situated where the electron stream leaves the face of the cathode.  The light generation volume is cone-shaped, and the luminous intensity falls off exponentially moving from cathode to anode causing it to heat.  The output of a pure xenon short-arc lamp offers fairly continuous spectral power distribution and light intensity ranges from 20,000 to 500,000 cd/cm 2 .  In xenon-mercury short-arc lamps, light is generated in a pinpoint-sized cloud of plasma situated at the tip of each electrode.  All xenon short-arc lamps generate substantial ultraviolet radiation and these readily pass through the fused quartz lamp envelope. So some lamps have envelopes made out of ultra-pure synthetic fused silica which allows them to emit useful light into the vacuum UV region.

  6. Spectral distribution of xenon arc lamp  Xenon short-arc lamps come in two distinct varieties: (i)pure xenon, which contains only xenon gas; and (ii) xenon-mercury, which contains xenon gas and a small amount of mercury metal.

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