XENON Pulsed UV Light
When mercury UV just isn’t good enough.
Conventional UV lamps use mercury and run continuously. Pulsed UV Light is fundamentally different. XENON’s unique technology generates ultra high peak power UV pulses that produce rapid and complete cures at low temperatures. In addition Xenon’s lamps reduce potential safety and environmental hazards and use less energy.
XENON Pulsed UV Light is used by process engineers for a wide range of curing challenges, from cosmetic packaging to medical devices to the latest advances in optical storage media. It’s suitable for any chemistries that absorb UV light from 180 nm to 1000 nm, and our modular product design lets you easily integrate our systems into any application..
If you’re having problems with mercury UV curing, talk to the engineers at XENON.
Why Pulsed is Better than Continuous
Pulsed Light produces peak power more than 100,000 times greater than the sun’s intensity on the Earth’s surface. Why is this better than continuous UV light? Consider two ways of expending the equivalent of 100 Joules of energy: one can either power a 10 watt continuous lamp for 10 seconds or power a 1,000,000 watt pulsed lamp for 100 microseconds. This is analogous to penetrating a block of wood with a nail: one could press a nail into the wood with a finger for 10 seconds without effect, or exert the same amount of energy and drive the nail instantaneously into the wood with a single strike of a hammer. Pulsed UV, like the hammer, delivers light at high peak power for deep penetration.
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XENON Pulsed UV Light is used by process engineers for a wide range of curing challenges, from cosmetic packaging to medical devices to the latest advances in optical storage media. It’s suitable for any chemistries that absorb UV light from 180 nm to 1000 nm, and our modular product design lets you easily integrate our systems into any application..
If you’re having problems with mercury UV curing, talk to the engineers at XENON.
Why Pulsed is Better than Continuous
Pulsed Light produces peak power more than 100,000 times greater than the sun’s intensity on the Earth’s surface. Why is this better than continuous UV light? Consider two ways of expending the equivalent of 100 Joules of energy: one can either power a 10 watt continuous lamp for 10 seconds or power a 1,000,000 watt pulsed lamp for 100 microseconds. This is analogous to penetrating a block of wood with a nail: one could press a nail into the wood with a finger for 10 seconds without effect, or exert the same amount of energy and drive the nail instantaneously into the wood with a single strike of a hammer. Pulsed UV, like the hammer, delivers light at high peak power for deep penetration.
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