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US 2012/0049767 A1Published application
High brightness excimer lamp
AssigneeRutgers, The State University
InventorsNazieh Mohammad Masoud, Daniel E. Murnick
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Abstract
A high brightness excimer light source has an elongated tube containing an excimer-forming gas and electrodes for exciting the gas to form a plasma, and thus create excimers such as a rare gas halogen excimer or a rare gas excimer. Light emitted from the excimer propagating axially along the tube passes out of the tube through an exit device such as a lens or optical fiber at one or both ends of the tube.
Claims4
A method of providing ultraviolet light comprising the steps of:
- (a) applying energy to an excimer-forming gas disposed in an elongated tube so as to generate excimers in the gas whereby light emitted from the excimers propagate axially along the tube;
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- (b) capturing light propagating axially along the tube at one or both ends thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.