xenon arc lamp

A light source used in microscopy that produces light by passing electricity through ionized xenon gas at high pressure. This light source has a more regular spectral output than mercury arc lamps, which exhibit numerous high intensity spectral lines.

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Focus and Alignment of Mercury and Xenon Arc Lamps

Mercury and xenon arc lamps are now widely utilized as illumination sources for a large number of investigations in widefield fluorescence microscopy. Visitors can gain practice aligning and focusing the arc lamp in a Mercury or Xenon Burner with this interactive tutorial, which simulates how the lamp is adjusted in a fluorescence microscope.