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Low power sealed optically thin resonance lamp

US3946272A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 7, 1974
Grant dateMar 23, 1976
Priority date
Expiry dateOct 7, 1994

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01J65/046
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A resonance lamp having a controllable chemical decomposition source of a parent species and a chemical getter sink in a sealed RF excited discharge. The discharge occurs in a second, extremely pure gas which is present in great excess over the gas produced by chemical decomposition. Excitation of species whose emission is desired occurs by electron impact or energy transfer from the major species which are, in turn, excited by the electron impact.

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