Effectiveness of recycling light in ultra-bright short-arc discharge lamps

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 14194-14201

  Malul, Asher ^a   Nakar, Doron ^a   Feuermann, Daniel ^a   Gordon, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC LAMPS; GEOMETRY; PROJECTION SYSTEMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; XENON;

PLASMA RADIANCE; RECYCLING LIGHT; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES; SPECTRAL WINDOWS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 35349020525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014194     Document Type: Article

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