Powerful glow discharge excilamp

• Main Authors: Tarasenko, Victor F, Panchenko, Aleksey N, Skakun, Victor S, Sosnin, Edward A, Wang, Francis T, Myers, Booth R, Adamson, Martyn G
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.04.2002

The present invention relates generally to excimer lamps ("excilamp"), and particularly to high power, high efficiency excimer lamps. A powerful glow discharge lamp comprising two coaxial tubes, the outer tube being optically transparent, with a cathode and anode placed at opposite ends of the tubes, the space between the tubes being filled with working gas. The electrodes are made as cylindrical tumblers placed in line to one other in such a way that one end of the cathode is inserted into the inner tube, one end of the anode coaxially covers the end of the outer tube, the inner tube penetrating and extending through the anode. The increased electrodes' surface area increases glow discharge electron current and, correspondingly, average radiation power of discharge plasma. The inner tube contains at least one cooling liquid tube placed along the axis of the inner tube along the entire lamp length to provide cathode cooling. The anode has a circumferential heat extracting radiator which removes heat from the anode. The invention is related to lighting engineering and can be applied for realization of photostimulated processes under the action of powerful radiation in required spectral range.