Solid State Lamps

Use Phosphor lamp coating (gallium arsenide solid-state lamp), carbon arc electrodes, lasers. 

If the flash lamp is pulsed very rapidly, the emergent beam appears at a rate governed by the lifetime of the inverted population. The resulting laser beam becomes almost continuous because the pulses follow each other so rapidly. However, such a solid-state laser should not be pulsed too rapidly because, if it is, the rod heats to an unacceptable extent, causing distortion and even fracture. Generally, solid-state lasers are not used in continuous mode because of this heating aspect. Liquid or gas lasers do not suffer from this problem. 

The term solid-state laser refers to lasers that use solids as their active medium. However, two kinds of materials are required a host crystal and an impurity dopant. The dopant is selected for its ability to form a population inversion. The Nd YAG laser, for example, uses a small number of neodymium ions as a dopant in the solid YAG (yttrium-aluminum-gar-net) crystal. Solid-state lasers are pumped with an outside source such as a flash lamp, arc lamp, or another laser. This energy is then absorbed by the dopant, raising the atoms to an excited state. Solid-state lasers are sought after because the active medium is relatively easy to handle and store. Also, because the wavelength they produce is within the transmission range of glass, they can be used with fiber optics. 

A diagram of their detector is shown in figure 21. The UV adsorption system consists of a low pressure mercury lamp emitting light at 254 nm and a solid state photo cell with quartz windows allowing the photo cell to respond to light in the UV region. 

The low solubility of fullerene (Ceo) in common organic solvents such as THE, MeCN and DCM interferes with its functionalization, which is a key step for its synthetic applications. Solid state photochemistry is a powerful strategy for overcoming this difficulty. Thus a 1 1 mixture of Cgo and 9-methylanthra-cene (Equation 4.10, R = Me) exposed to a high-pressure mercury lamp gives the adduct 72 (R = Me) with 68% conversion [51]. No 9-methylanthracene dimers were detected. Anthracene does not react with Ceo under these conditions this has been correlated to its ionization potential which is lower than that of the 9-methyl derivative. This suggests that the Diels-Alder reaction proceeds via photo-induced electron transfer from 9-methylanthracene to the triplet excited state of Ceo-... 

Irradiation of (+ )-crystals of 96 with a 400 W high-pressure Hg-lamp, with occasional grinding with an agate mortar and pestle for 40 h at room temperature gave ( + )-97 of 93 % ee in 74 % yield. Irradiation of (—)-crystals of 96 under the same conditions gave (—)-97 of 93 % ec in 75% yield48. Purification to 100% ee can easily be achieved by recrystallization from benzene. Although the photochemical conversion of 96 into 97 on irradiation in the solid state has been reported, enantioselectivity of the reaction has not been discussed 441. 

Blog Entry 2 At 250mA, your lamp is unlikely to be solid-state. Incandescent lamps may draw considerably more current than you think at startup, if the element temperature is not at thermal equilibrium. Though one Hertz is fairly fast for thermal effects, it is worth keeping an eye on. 

Several classes of potentially useful fluorescent materials exist. Most lamp phosphors and many solid state materials are insulating compounds containing ionic activators. The spectra of the rare-earth activators resemble, to a first approximation,... 

The choice of sensor material determines range, sensitivity, and stability. By considering the latter factors, it is found that inorganic insulating compounds, such as most lamp phosphors and many solid state laser materials, are the most suitable materials for thermometric applications. Indeed, these materials are most commonly used in the existing commercial fluorescence thermometer schemes. 

Instead of glowbars, as used in MIR, tungsten halogen lamps are the sources of light. The detectors are solid-state semiconductors such as lead sulfide (PbS) or indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs). These are orders of magnitude quieter than typical MIR detectors and often more sensitive. 

The compound cerium oxide (either Ce Oj or CeO ) is used to coat the inside of ovens because it was discovered that food cannot stick to oven walls that are coated with cerium oxide. Cerium compounds are used as electrodes in high-intensity lamps and film projectors used by the motion picture industry. Cerium is also used in the manufacturing and polishing of high-refraction lenses for cameras and telescopes and in the manufacture of incandescent lantern mantles. It additionally acts as a chemical reagent, a misch metal, and a chemical catalyst. Cerium halides are an important component of the textile and photographic industries, as an additive to other metals, and in automobile catalytic converters. Cerium is also used as an alloy to make special steel for jet engines, solid-state instruments, and rocket propellants. 

Irradiation of the powdered crystals of 6a-d with a high-pressure mercury lamp under argon at 0 °C showed a different photochemical behavior from that in benzene solution. Contrary to the photochemical results in solution media in which azetidin-2-ones 8 (y-hydrogen abstraction products) were formed as major products, thioketones 7 (P-hydrogen abstraction products) were obtained as major components in the solid-state photoreactions (Scheme 7). The... 

Scheffer et al. carried out photolyses of monothioimides in the solid state with a 450-W high-pressure mercury lamp. In a carefully controlled run, photolysis of monothioimides 14a-d in the solid state with rigorous exclusion of moisture led to no reaction [40,41]. When no special attempts were made to... 

When thioamides 24f-h were irradiated in benzene with a high-pressure mercury lamp, iV-isopropyl-P-thiolactam 26 and 1,3,5-dithiazine 28 were obtained (Scheme 15 and Table 10, entries 1,3, and 5). Considerably different photochemical behavior was observed between that in solution and in the solid state. Powdered thioamide 24f was irradiated in the solid state at 0 °C until 19% conversion, because the solid changed to amorphous at around 20% conversion. In this case, only dithiazine 28f was obtained as the sole photoproduct (entry 2). On the contrary, photolysis of 24g gave a new type of p-lactam 27g as a main product in 88% yield in addition to dithiazine 28g (12%) the P-lactam 26g was not detected at all (entry 4). Photochemical ( ,Z) isomerization of (Z)-24g was also observed in the early stage of the reaction, where the ratio of the photostationary state was ZIE=1.9. In the case of 24h, P-thiolactam 27h was ob-... 

Calcination temperature. Catalyst 0.7 g in 350 iiiL of water Liglit source 400-W high -pressure mercury lamp. PC stands for polymerizable coin pi ex while SSR stands for solid state reactions. 

The necessary pump powers can be achieved either by other lasers (e.g. nitrogen lasers, solid-state lasers or even focussed He-Ne- or Ar+-gas lasers) or by flash-lamps. The simplest practical arrangement is a square spectrophotometer cell, polished on all sides, containing the dye solution which is pumped by a nitrogen laser whose beam is focussed into a line parallel to and directly behind one of the cell windows. Then the Fresnel reflection from the two adjacent windows gives enough feedback in most cases, so that no additional resonator mirrors are needed and the dye laser oscillation starts. 

The laser cavity for solid state ruby laser (Figure 10.13) consists of a ruby rod with excitation lamp fixed parallel to it. At the end of the cavity there is a totally reflecting mirror and at the opposite end, a... 

The phosphors obtained by solid-state reactions are not sufficiently resistant to aging for use in fluorescent lamps. In a pseudo-sol-gel process an aqueous solution of (Y, Tb) (N03)3 is treated with Si02 and heated to 1200°C. After subsequent reductive firing under N2/H2 at 1700-1800 °C, a phosphor is obtained with a resistance to aging comparable to that of the aluminates [5.366],... 

Figure 7.12 Outline of a pulsed solid-state laser. L, flash lamp for pump light C, high-voltage capacitor T, trigger spark gap Mr, reflecting mirror Ms, partially reflecting mirror R, rod of lasing material Q, Qjswitch cell or crystal...

---