Circuit-design criteria for improvement of xenon flash-lamp performance (lamp life, light-pulse, narrowness, uniformity of light intensity in a series of flashes)

Author

Campo, J.C. ; Pérez, M.A. ; Mezquita, J.M. ; Sebastian, J.

Author_Institution

Oviedo Univ., Spain

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

23-27 Feb 1997

Firstpage

1057

Abstract

Xenon flash lamps are one of the brightest light sources available. They are used from simple applications like camera flashes to extremely demanding ones such as photometry, chemical analysis, spectroscopy, etc. A power supply to drive a xenon lamp must provide a substantially high voltage and current, and must provide a controlled high voltage pulse to strike the arc. The influence of the parameters of the power supply and parasitics on light output, stability and lamp life is analyzed in this paper. The experimental results have been evaluated with several types of lamps and with power supplies developed to make them

Keywords

arc lamps; arcs (electric); design engineering; flash lamps; power supplies to apparatus; xenon; Xe; applications; arc striking; circuit design criteria; lamp life; light intensity; light output; light pulse; parasitics; power supply; stability; xenon flash-lamp performance; Cameras; Chemical analysis; Circuits; Lamps; Light sources; Photometry; Power supplies; Pulsed power supplies; Spectroscopy; Xenon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 1997. APEC '97 Conference Proceedings 1997., Twelfth Annual

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3704-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.1997.575780

Filename

575780