Electrodeless Vacuum UV Light Sources

Electrodeless VUV sources are designed to be reliable, compact and maintenance-free light sources suitable for use across a wide range of applications in the space, research and commercial markets. These sources offer an operating life often in excess of 4000 hours. The VUV sources are sealed RF excited sources with a window in an EMI shielded enclosure that mounts to a 2.75 inch or larger CF type flange. The source assembly has an integral RF exciter which is powered by a small wall plug power supply.

These electrodeless VUV Sources are available with a variety of gas fills to provide various spectral lines, including Krypton, Xenon, Argon, Deuterium, and more. These sources have been used in a wide variety of applications and industries; and in addition, are used on both the Hubble Telescope and on the International Space Station (ISS).

Other applications include, materials testing, calibration, characterizing detectors in the VUV, solar simulation, UV disinfection, UV/VUV Photochemistry, semiconductor atom measurements, measuring plasma in fusion chambers, and many more.