RADIO FREQUENCY LIGHT SOURCES

Presenting by Rohit pandey Under the guidance of Ms. Sonali Gupta (Lecturer E&C Engg.)

INTRODUCTION
Generate light by exciting a plasma inside a bulb by using radio frequency power. Radio frequency lamps operate without electrode. Three practical ways to energize RF light sources are capacitive ,inductive and wave sustained discharge.

DISCHARGE TUBES
It is the device in which a gas conducting an electric current emits visible light On applying high voltage gas ions ionizes and emit coloured lights The light originates as electrons change energy levels in the ionized atoms. By coating the inside layer of tube with a phosphor, invisible emitted radiation can produce visible light

HISTORY

Plasma lamps
Invented

by Frederick Espiau in 1980

was used for RF generation

magnetron Noble limited low

gas was used inside the bulb

life,lagre size,

power could not sustained the plasma under 1000

watt

Lifi
Invented

in 2006 by luxim

Can

sustain plasma under 1000 watt

size

Small

Ceravision plasma lamps

It

uses high dielectric constant of ceramic to create a

very small waveguide to constrain and focus the radio

waves
Small Long

size life

TYPES OF RF LAMPS