Abstract:
A laser-sustained plasma (LSP) light source with reverse vortex flow is disclosed. The LSP source includes gas cell including a gas containment structure including a body, neck, and shaft. The gas cell includes one or more gas delivery lines for delivery gas to one or more nozzles positioned in or below the neck of the gas containment structure. The gas cell includes one or more gas inlets and one or more gas outlets arranged to generate a reverse vortex flow within the gas containment structure of the gas cell. The LSP source also includes a laser pump source configured to generate an optical pump to sustain a plasma in a region of the gas containment structure. The LSP source includes a light collector element configured to collect at least a portion of broadband light emitted from the plasma.
Abstract:
An illumination source includes a laser driver unit configured to emit a plasma sustaining beam. An ingress collimator receives the plasma sustaining beam and produces a collimated ingress beam. A focusing optic receives the collimated ingress beam and produce a focused sustaining beam. A sealed lamp chamber contains an ionizable media that, once ignited, forms a high intensity light emitting plasma having a waist size smaller than 150 microns. The sealed lamp chamber further includes an ingress window configured to receive the focused sustaining beam and an egress window configured to emit the high intensity light. An ignition source is configured to ignite the ionizable media, and an exit fiber is configured to receive and convey the high intensity light. The high intensity light is white light with a black body spectrum, and the exit fiber has a diameter in the range of 200-500 micrometers.
Abstract:
Apparatuses are disclosed which include a discharge lamp (22) configured to emit ultraviolet light, a power circuit (26) configured to operate the discharge lamp, and a reflector system (60) configured to redirect ultraviolet light emitted from the discharge lamp. In addition, systems are disclosed which include processor-executable program instructions for receiving data regarding characteristics of a room in which one or more disinfection sources are arranged and determining, based on the received data, individual operating parameter/s for the one or more disinfection sources. Yet other systems include processor-executable program instructions for discerning, for each of a plurality of disinfection sources, a target location, region, object or surface within a room in which the disinfection sources are arranged, comparing the target locations/regions/objects/surfaces, and executing corrective action/s upon detecting two or more locations/objects/surfaces are within a predetermined distance of each other and/ or upon detecting two or more regions overlap.
Abstract:
Apparatuses are disclosed which include a discharge lamp configured to emit ultraviolet light, a power circuit configured to operate the discharge lamp, and a reflector system configured to redirect ultraviolet light emitted from the discharge lamp. In addition, systems are disclosed which include processor-executable program instructions for receiving data regarding characteristics of a room in which one or more disinfection sources are arranged and determining, based on the received data, individual operating parameter/s for the one or more disinfection sources. Yet other systems include processor-executable program instructions for discerning, for each of a plurality of disinfection sources, a target location, region, object or surface within a room in which the disinfection sources are arranged, comparing the target locations/regions/objects/surfaces, and executing corrective action/s upon detecting two or more locations/objects/surfaces are within a predetermined distance of each other and/or upon detecting two or more regions overlap.
Abstract:
A cold cathode lighting device is a fluorescent tube replacement and has a transparent tube, a cold cathode formed as a wire or rod with an electron emissive surface and passing through a center of the transparent tube. An extraction grid is formed around and spaced apart from the cold cathode and has an external diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the transparent tube. A phosphor material and a conductive material form an anode on an inner surface of the transparent tube. A vacuum is maintained within the transparent tube and a power conversion circuit in an end unit converts electrical power into a first potential applied to the cold cathode, a second potential applied to the extraction grid and a third potential applied to the anode. Electrons emitted from the cold cathode accelerate towards the anode and light is emitted from the fluorescent tube replacement light emitting device.
Abstract:
A discharge lamp (1) is provided with a discharge vessel (2) comprising a discharge vessel wall made at least partly of a transparent ceramic material, said dis¬ charge vessel wall enclosing a discharge chamber (3) with opposing first (11) and second ends (12), a filling, provided in said discharge chamber (3), a first electrode (7) comprising a first projecting end (8) and a second electrode (5) comprising a second projecting end (6). The first electrode (7) is arranged to project into the chamber (3) from the first end (11) and the second electrode (5) is arranged to project into the chamber (3) from the second end (12). The discharge chamber wall comprises at least one joining seam (4), resulting from a joining of at least two parts (2a, 2b) of ceramic material. The joining seam (4) is located in the discharge chamber wall at a position closer to the first end (11) of the discharge chamber (3) than the first projecting end (8), so that the output beam of the lamp (1) is not impaired by the joining seam (4).
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are optical interference multilayer coatings having region provided by a physical vapor deposition process and region provided by a chemical vapor deposition process. Also disclosed herein are methods of making such coatings, as well as lamps comprising a light-transmissive envelope, at least a portion of the surface of the light-transmissive envelope being provided with the optical interference multilayer coating noted above. Such coatings, when used on lamps, may advantageously offer improved energy efficiencies for such lamps.
Abstract:
L'invention concerne une lampe à décharge luminescente (1) pour spectromètre à décharge luminescente comprenant un corps de lampe comprenant une enceinte à vide (6) apte à être raccordée d'une part à des moyens de pompage (8) de ladite enceinte, et d'autre part à des moyens d'injection d'un gaz inerte (10) dans ladite enceinte (6), une première électrode (2), une seconde électrode (4), apte à recevoir un échantillon (12) à analyser, des moyens pour appliquer une différence de potentiel continue (DC), radio-fréquence (RF) ou hybride aux bornes desdites électrodes (2) et (4), apte à générer un plasma (32) de décharge luminescente en présence du gaz (10), des moyens de couplage du corps de lampe à un spectromètre pour mesurer rémission dudit plasma (32) et des moyens de génération de champ magnétique (34). Selon l'invention, les moyens de génération de champ magnétique (34) sont aptes à produire au moins pendant une durée T un champ magnétique présentant un grand degré de parallélisme à la surface (14) de l'échantillon (12) apte à être exposée audit plasma (32), entre ladite surface (14) et le plasma.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a headlight assembly comprising a configurable indicator array that includes a plurality of individually controllable lights that may be activated and deactivated to form a plurality of light patterns.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a new discharge element having a discharge-control electrode for inducing a discharge even at low voltage by improving a characteristic in which a discharge element may not be discharged against a fast transient voltage when it is at low voltage, and more specifically, the discharge element having a discharge-control electrode according to the present invention comprises an airtight cylinder formed with a ceramic insulation material, a pair of discharge electrodes arranged for facing an end opening of the airtight cylinder, a discharge gap formed between the pair of discharge electrodes, a discharge-assisting material filled inside the airtight cylinder, and a discharge-control electrode in contact with the airtight cylinder and physically separated from the discharge-assisting material, wherein a discharge between the pair of discharge electrodes is induced by a control voltage applied through the discharge-control electrode.