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    A flashtube (flashlamp) is an electric arc lamp designed to produce extremely intense, incoherent, full-spectrum white light for a very short time. A...
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    a ruby rod that must be pumped with very high energy, usually from a flashtube, to achieve a population inversion. The rod is often placed between two...
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    the flashtube, with both windows and an inlet/outlet for the liquid on each end. The dye cell is usually side-pumped, with one or more flashtubes running...
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    gas-discharge lamp, useful both for illumination and as a voltage regulator. A flashtube generates a short pulse of intense light useful for photography by sending...
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    A controlled arc-flash, produced in a flashtube. Even though the energy level used is fairly low (85 joules), the low-impedance, low-inductance circuit...
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    intense illumination. The light source is commonly a xenon flash lamp, or flashtube, which has a complex spectrum and a color temperature of approximately...
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    Ablation near the electrode in a flashtube. The high-energy electrical arc slowly erodes the glass, leaving a frosted appearance....
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    own circuit. In this regard, the entire circuit is very similar to a flashtube based photoflash, where the trigger transformer provides the ionization...
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    lamps. A xenon flashtube has a typical wall-plug efficiency of 50–70%, exceeding that of most other forms of lighting. Because the flashtube emits large...
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    consists of either a rotating disk with slots or holes or a lamp such as a flashtube which produces brief repetitive flashes of light. Usually, the rate of...
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    some capacitors where dangerous voltages and energies exist, such as in flashtubes, television sets, microwave ovens and defibrillators, the dielectric absorption...
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    (purplish discoloration) under intense UV illumination, as is often seen in flashtubes. "UV grade" synthetic fused silica (sold under various tradenames including...
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  • crystallization. Arc lamp – Lamp that produces light by an electric arc Flashtube – Incoherent light source Lightning – Weather phenomenon involving electrostatic...
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    An extremely intense pulse of short-wave UV light in a flashtube produced this blue persistent-phosphorescence in the amorphous, fused silica envelope...
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    Xenon flashing inside a flashtube frame by frame...
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    the same fashion that a ruby laser produces red light when pumped by a flashtube. Testing in the 1980s demonstrated the efficiency was far too low to be...
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    Bell Laboratories in 1964. Nd:YAG lasers are optically pumped using a flashtube or laser diodes. These are one of the most common types of laser, and...
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    tube is first evacuated and then re-filled with xenon gas. For xenon flashtubes, a third "trigger" electrode usually surrounds the exterior of the arc...
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    A krypton long arc lamp (top) is shown above a xenon flashtube. The two lamps, used for laser pumping, are very different in the shape of the electrodes...
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    List of photographic equipment makers Flash comparison Photoflash bomb Flashtube Through-the-lens metering Jones, Lou (2013-06-19). Speedlights & Speedlites:...
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    ruby crystal. The synthetic ruby rod is optically pumped using a xenon flashtube before it is used as an active laser medium. YAG is an abbreviation for...
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    glassblowing. It is used very often in the construction of lighting, neon signs, flashtubes, scientific equipment, and the manufacture of dishes and other glassware...
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    two banks of beamlines. The blue boxes contain the amplifiers and their flashtube "pumps", the tubes between the banks of amplifiers are the spatial filters...
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  • with halogen bulbs similar to those used in vehicle headlamps, xenon flashtubes, or LEDs. Incandescent and xenon light sources require the vehicle's engine...
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    not been developed, and this approach would have required the use of flashtubes. With the development of the first functioning laser in 1960 at Bell Labs...
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    from a capacitor discharge via a trigger transformer, in a similar way flashtubes for e.g. photoflash applications are triggered. Devices integrating a...
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    having been completed in 1852. The light last installed was a xenon flashtube beacon. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984...
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    movie apparatus that they knew best (for instance the use of stroboscopic flashtubes instead of shutter blades). The Eidoloscope, devised by Eugene Augustin...
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    The picture's creation involved Edgerton connecting his camera to xenon flashtubes, then positioning it in front of a dripper that steadily released droplets...
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    standard camera setting is ISO 250. When electronic flash devices based on flashtube technology are used with most modern cameras (those with focal-plane shutters)...
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