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High-Pressure Sodium-Vapor Lamps

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The striking feature of sodium-vapor lamps is their radiation dominated by the emission of two resonance lines at 589/590 nm. This emission is quite close to the maximum luminous efficiency function at 555 nm and hence contributes effectively to the luminous efficacy. However, due to the limited spectral range of the emission, the spectrum is yellowish and suffers from a poor color rendering.

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The authors kindly acknowledge valuable contributions to this chapter by Stuart Mucklejohn.

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  1. INP Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2, 17489, Greifswald, Germany

    Heinz Schöpp & Steffen Franke

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  1. Heinz Schöpp
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  1. Smart Lighting Engineering Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

    Robert Karlicek

  2. Department of Optics and Photonics, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

    Ching-Cherng Sun

  3. Toulouse University, Toulouse, France

    Georges Zissis

  4. OLED Lighting, Universal Display Corporation, Ewing, USA

    Ruiqing Ma

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Schöpp, H., Franke, S. (2014). High-Pressure Sodium-Vapor Lamps. In: Karlicek, R., Sun, CC., Zissis, G., Ma, R. (eds) Handbook of Advanced Lighting Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00295-8_5-1

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