Provided herein is a high intensity discharge light source having a thermally insulative and optically transparent sleeve for maintaining or enhancing a spectral performance parameter. The configuration of the sleeve provides an insulative volume that allows an elevated steady state operating temperature to be reached, even when the light source is cooled. The sleeve is also configured to withstand a bulb failure event, thereby protecting the surrounding environment from falling debris. Also provided herein are methods for dissipating heat from the light source without adversely affecting the bulb operating temperature or the enhanced spectral performance parameter.

Provided herein is a high intensity discharge light source having a thermally insulative and optically transparent sleeve for maintaining or enhancing a spectral performance parameter. The configuration of the sleeve provides an insulative volume that allows an elevated steady state operating temperature to be reached, even when the light source is cooled. The sleeve is also configured to withstand a bulb failure event, thereby protecting the surrounding environment from falling debris. Also provided herein are methods for dissipating heat from the light source without adversely affecting the bulb operating temperature or the enhanced spectral performance parameter.

The present application discloses an ultraviolet lamp tube and a novel gas discharge UV lamp, which, through unique coating methods, can ensure monochromaticity of light output of the light source, while increasing the luminous angle of the ultraviolet lamp tube, thus effectively improving the light efficiency, simplifying structure, and greatly reducing production costs.

The present application discloses an ultraviolet lamp tube and a novel gas discharge UV lamp, which, through unique coating methods, can ensure monochromaticity of light output of the light source, while increasing the luminous angle of the ultraviolet lamp tube, thus effectively improving the light efficiency, simplifying structure, and greatly reducing production costs.

The invention describes a gas-discharge lamp comprising an inner vessel enclosing a pair of electrodes separated by a gap; and an outer vessel enclosing the inner vessel; and wherein the lamp comprises a lateral stripe arranged on the surface of a vessel such that the lateral stripe lies below a horizontal plane through a longitudinal axis through the center of the lamp, and wherein the lateral stripe extends essentially only over a region corresponding to the gap between the electrodes.

A ceramic metal halide lamp includes a luminous tube; an illuminating arrangement having at least two illuminators serially connected with each other and deposed inside the luminous tube; and at least one retainer having at least contacting one end being contacted with an inner surface of the luminous tube to support the illuminators being stability located at a predetermined position inside said luminous tube, wherein the two illuminators are serially connected with each other along a central line of said luminous tube.

A ceramic metal halide lamp includes a luminous tube; an illuminating arrangement having at least two illuminators serially connected with each other and deposed inside the luminous tube; and at least one retainer having at least contacting one end being contacted with an inner surface of the luminous tube to support the illuminators being stability located at a predetermined position inside said luminous tube, wherein the two illuminators are serially connected with each other along a central line of said luminous tube.

The present disclosure describes a plasma illumination device with microwave pumping, comprising:

a hermetically sealed casing, a magnetron, a microwave resonator containing a rotatable electrodeless plasma lamp,

a coaxial coupling line running parallel to the casing axis, for transmitting microwave power from the magnetron to the microwave resonator, at least one heat sink located on the inner walls of the casing and providing heat transfer through the casing to the external environment, and a light-transmitting hermetically sealed hollow cylinder fitted in a hermetically sealed way on the casing above the microwave resonator. This results in an illumination device with microwave pumping, which may be used to illuminate objects located in unfavorable environmental conditions, particularly those in which there is a high content of dust or other contaminants, or in an aqueous environment at great depths.

A radiation driven light source comprises laser and focusing optics. These produce a beam of radiation focused on a plasma forming zone within a first container containing a gas (e.g. Xe). Collection optics collects photons emitted by a plasma maintained by the laser radiation to form a beam of output radiation. First container is enclosed within a hermetically sealed second container. Any ozone generated within the second container as a result of ultraviolet components of the output radiation is completely contained within the second container. Second container further filters out the ultraviolet components. Microwave radiation may be used instead of laser radiation to form the plasma.

A radiation driven light source comprises laser and focusing optics. These produce a beam of radiation focused on a plasma forming zone within a first container containing a gas (e.g. Xe). Collection optics collects photons emitted by a plasma maintained by the laser radiation to form a beam of output radiation. First container is enclosed within a hermetically sealed second container. Any ozone generated within the second container as a result of ultraviolet components of the output radiation is completely contained within the second container. Second container further filters out the ultraviolet components. Microwave radiation may be used instead of laser radiation to form the plasma.