A xenon arc lamp is a highly specialized type of gas discharge lamp an electric light that produces light by passing electricity through ionized xenon gas at high pressure.
Xenon arc lamp emission spectrum.
However the emission spectrum extends more into the ultraviolet spectral region.
This includes arc lamps in the original sense which have various aspects in common with xenon arc lamps.
Instead an arc is created from the filament to the anode a similar process to arc lamps because the filament must be very hot before it can operate it is.
Unlike an incandescent bulb the filament is not the source of light in deuterium lamps.
The output spectrum of xenon closely matches the absorption wavelengths of nd yag and many other lasing materials.
The typical usage of xenon flashlamps is as the pump source for laser systems.
The substantial contribution by the electrodes is due to their large surface areas and high temperatures.
This is the same phenomenon that gives neon signs their characteristic color.
A deuterium lamp uses a tungsten filament and anode placed on opposite sides of a nickel box structure designed to produce the best output spectrum.
Xenon xe arc lamps have a relatively smooth emission curve in the uv to visible spectrums with characteristic wavelengths emitted from 750 1000 nm.
Their sun like emission spectrum and 5800 k color temperature make them a popular choice for solar simulation as well as absorption and fluorescence and source spectral scanning applications.
They have similar electrodes and work at similar power levels e g.
These lamps emit by arc discharge.
An additional advantage that the xenon arc lamp has is that when there are variations in power this does not result in any significant shift.
For example hamamatsu s 75 w and 150 w xenon lamps l10725 and l11033 series have a guaranteed life of 2000 and 3000 hours respectively.
It does generate strong emission lines in the infrared from 800 nm 1000 nm but these can be eliminated using optical filters.
They have high output intensity high stability and long life.
A few hundreds of watts.
It produces a bright white light that closely mimics natural sunlight with applications in movie projectors in theaters in searchlights and for specialized uses in industry and research to simulate sunlight often for.
In xenon arc lamps the total lamp output ranges over 1000 nanometers in spectral bandwidth with the plasma arc and electrodes each accounting for approximately half of the total emission.
Xenon arc lamps have a spectrum almost identical to that of a sun at 5800 k.
Deuterium lamps xenon lamps mercury xenon lamps xenon flash lamps 0 01 0 1 1 10 3 2 hollow cathode lamps 5 1 vacuum ultra violet deuterium lamps 0 05 0 005 20 using a lamp with a longer service life leads to the reduction of maintenance cost and time and running cost of equipment.
However the broadband spectrum provides useable wavelengths from 160nm 1000nm making the xenon flashlamp a versatile light source for other.
