Gas-discharge lamps are a family of artificial light sources that generate light by sending an electric discharge through an ionized gas, a plasma. Typically...

A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm. Two varieties...

High-intensity discharge lamps (HID lamps) are a type of electrical gas-discharge lamp which produces light by means of an electric arc between tungsten...

The induction lamp, electrodeless lamp, or electrodeless induction lamp is a gas-discharge lamp in which an electric or magnetic field transfers the power...

A neon lamp (also neon glow lamp) is a miniature gas-discharge lamp. The lamp typically consists of a small glass capsule that contains a mixture of neon...

discharge. A gas-discharge lamp is an electric light using a gas-filled tube; these include fluorescent lamps, metal-halide lamps, sodium-vapor lamps...

A fluorescent lamp, or fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light. An electric...

arc lamp is a highly specialized type of gas discharge lamp, an electric light that produces light by passing electricity through ionized xenon gas at...

a type of high-intensity discharge (HID) gas discharge lamp. Developed in the 1960s, they are similar to mercury vapor lamps, but contain additional metal...

electric lights are incandescent lamps, which produce light by a filament heated white-hot by electric current, gas-discharge lamps, which produce light by means...

A mercury-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses an electric arc through vaporized mercury to produce light. The arc discharge is generally confined...

voltages, and emits light by the same mechanism as in a gas discharge lamp and in glow discharge, namely, via a combination of bremsstrahlung radiation...

depends on the gas used. Glow discharges are used as a source of light in devices such as neon lights, cold cathode fluorescent lamps and plasma-screen...

(HMI) is the trademark name of Osram's brand of metal-halide gas discharge medium arc-length lamp, made specifically for film and entertainment applications...

Plasma lamps are a type of electrodeless gas-discharge lamp energized by radio frequency (RF) power. They are distinct from the novelty plasma lamps that...

steady current can illustrate the gas spectrum in a gas-filled tube. A neon lamp is an example of a gas-discharge lamp, useful both for illumination and...

used for gas discharge lamps, which produce light by an arc between metal electrodes through a gas in a glass bulb. The common fluorescent lamp is a low-pressure...

of lamp Sodium-vapor lamp – Type of electric gas-discharge lamp Sulfur lamp – Lighting system Xenon arc lamp – Gas discharge lamp that produces intense...

voltage phenomena. Tesla called his invention an "inert gas discharge tube". The modern plasma lamp design was developed by James Falk and MIT student Bill...

A deuterium arc lamp (or simply deuterium lamp) is a low-pressure gas-discharge light source often used in spectroscopy when a continuous spectrum in...

supplied by thermionic emission alone. It is used in gas-discharge lamps, such as neon lamps, discharge tubes, and some types of vacuum tube. The other type...

Compact fluorescent lamp List of light sources Fluorescent lamp recycling T5 retrofit conversion Funke and Oranje, "Gas Discharge Lamps"; N.V Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken...

circuiting the incandescent filament. As with all gas-discharge lamps, low- and high-pressure mercury lamps exhibit negative resistance and require the use...

indicator light fixture or component, such as a: Neon glow lamp, a miniature gas-discharge lamp Digitron / cold cathode display / Nixie tube, an electronic...

ultra-high-performance lamp, often known by the Philips trademark UHP, is a high-pressure mercury arc lamp. These were originally known as ultra-high-pressure lamps, because...

type of preheat starter used with a fluorescent lamp. It is commonly filled with neon gas or argon gas and typically contains a bimetallic strip and a...

necessarily destructive and may be reversible, as for example in a gas discharge lamp tube. If the current supplied by the external circuit is removed sufficiently...

industry, and entertainment. The lamp consists of a hermetically sealed glass tube which is filled with a noble gas, usually xenon, and electrodes to...

warm-up time of the sulfur lamp is notably shorter than for other gas discharge lamps, with the exception of fluorescent lamps, even at low ambient temperatures...

Geissler tube is a precursor to modern gas discharge tubes, demonstrating the principles of electrical glow discharge, akin to contemporary neon lights, and...