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2. Flashtube - Wikipedia

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   Helical xenon flashtube emitting greybody radiation as white light. (Animated version below.) A flashtube (flashlamp) produces an electrostatic discharge with an extremely intense, incoherent, full-spectrum white light for a very short time. A flashtube is a glass tube with an electrode at each end and is filled with a gas that, when triggered ...

3. Xenon arc lamp - Wikipedia

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   A xenon 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 high pressure. It produces a bright white light to simulate sunlight , with applications in movie projectors in theaters , in searchlights , and for specialized uses in industry and research.

4. Strobe light - Wikipedia

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   A strobe light or stroboscopic lamp, commonly called a strobe, is a device used to produce regular flashes of light. It is one of a number of devices that can be used as a stroboscope . The word originated from the Ancient Greek στρόβος ( stróbos ), meaning "act of whirling".

5. Stroboscope - Wikipedia

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   Neon lamps or light-emitting diodes are commonly used for low-intensity strobe applications. Neon lamps were more common before the development of solid-state electronics, but are being replaced by LEDs in most low-intensity strobe applications. Xenon flash lamps are used for medium- and high-intensity strobe applications. Sufficiently rapid or ...

6. High-intensity discharge lamp - Wikipedia

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   15 kW xenon short-arc lamp used in IMAX projectors. 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 electrodes housed inside a translucent or transparent fused quartz or fused alumina arc tube. [1]

7. Xenon lamp - Wikipedia

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   Xenon lamp may refer to: Xenon arc lamp; Xenon flash lamp; An incandescent light bulb filled with xenon gas to improve life span or efficiency; A metal halide lamp that is used in automotive headlights