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Design and construction of a home-made and cheaper argon arc lamp

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The authors report on the design and construction of an argon arc lamp which provides noticeably a cheaper instrument for laser and medical applications. Cesium-doped tungsten and pure tungsten rods were used, respectively, for the lamp cathode and anode. To seal the glassy tube, a 50–50 Fe–Ni alloy was successfully used as a medium to attach the tungsten electrodes to the borosilicate glass tube. Starting voltage of the lamp versus the gas pressure, operation voltage–current diagram at various gas pressures, and lamp spectrum in the various pressures were measured. A comparison was made with krypton arc lamp. The lamp operation was satisfactory without any crack or fracture during lightening operation. The results showed that the lamp-lightening threshold voltage depends linearly on the pressure and arc length in such a way that there is an increase in the voltage by raising these two parameters. We have also observed that by increasing the argon pressure, there is a shifting in emission spectrum from the ultraviolet to the visible region. Comparison with krypton arc lamp indicated that argon lamp needs a higher threshold lightening voltage.

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The authors would like to thank Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran for partially supporting this work.

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  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Shahid Chamran Unicversity of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

    Mohammad Sabaeian, Zeinab Nazari-Tarkarani & Azadeh Ebrahimzadeh

  2. Center for Research on Laser and Plasma, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

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Sabaeian, M., Nazari-Tarkarani, Z. & Ebrahimzadeh, A. Design and construction of a home-made and cheaper argon arc lamp. Opt Rev 25, 493–499 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-018-0439-y

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