yobbo I - 20-3-2016 at 15:16
High power Xenon light on ebay here
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Xenon-Light-Bulb-DPKs-8000M-/3219271...
Count this be strobed or flashed once for a super camera etc flashlight
Yob
Marvin - 22-3-2016 at 15:19
Probably not, xenon tubes used outside their intended regime tend to perform badly and die quickly. Tubes like that tend to explode when over driven.
Used at it's rating, 8kw is probably a bit wimpy for a flash lamp.
If you don't need high reliability, flash lamps are something you can do at home, I recall one of the laser projects in scientific american used some
form of vacuum pump (might even have been a water aspirator) and when a small hole was covered the pressure would drop and the lamp would fire. Just
a glass tube of the right size filled with air.
yobbo I - 22-3-2016 at 15:53
Yes indeed.
There are some details at this link
http://technology.niagarac.on.ca/people/mcsele/lasers/Lasers...
Refs.1, 2 and 3
[1] A tunable laser using organic dye is made at home for less than $75
Scientific American, Amateur Scientist Column, February 1970
A must-read article. Describes a simple laser using a homemade air flashlamp. Very inexpensive but the hardest part is obtaining a suitable capacitor)
ordinary electrolytics will not work here.
[2] Flashlamp-pumped organic dye lasers
P. Sorokin, et al.
The Journal Of Chemical Physics, Vol 48, Number 10, 15 May 1970
Describes the use of ultra-low inductance disk capacitors and coaxial air flashlamps to pump the laser.>
[3] Optical pumps for organic dye lasers
H. W. Furumoto and H.L. Ceccon
Applied Optics, Vol 8, Number 8, August 1969
An excellent study of ultra-fast flashlamps used to pump dye lasers.
Anyone got access to these?
YOB