MICROWAVE LIGHT SOURCE WITH SOLID DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDE

• Main Authors: PRESTON, BERRY, NEATE, ANDREW, SIMON
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 20.05.2010
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS; ELECTRICITY

A lamp (1) comprises an oscillator and amplifier source (2) of microwave energy, typically operating at 2.45 or 5.8 GHz or other frequencies within an ISM band. The source passes the microwaves via a matching circuit (3) to an antenna (4) extending into a re-entrant (5) in a lucent waveguide (6). Th...