High-power UV lamps for industrial UV curing applications

Richard W. Stowe

doi:10.1117/12.257198

8 November 1996 High-power UV lamps for industrial UV curing applications

Richard W. Stowe

Proceedings Volume 2831, Ultraviolet Atmospheric and Space Remote Sensing: Methods and Instrumentation; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.257198
Event: SPIE's 1996 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1996, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

UV Curing is highly adaptable to printing, coating, decorating and assembling of a great variety of products and materials owing to some of its key attributes, it is: a low temperature process, a high speed process, and a solventless process--cure is by polymerization rather than by evaporation. The latest developments in UV lamps for industrial processing are presented. Among these are: (1) the selection and control of the lamp emission spectra to match the optical properties of the film and its photoinitiator, (2) sustained high power lamp operation at 6 kilowatts, and (3) the use of absorptive dichroic reflectors to manage the relative components of UV and infrared energy in the highly focused radiation delivered to surfaces being processed.

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Richard W. Stowe "High-power UV lamps for industrial UV curing applications", Proc. SPIE 2831, Ultraviolet Atmospheric and Space Remote Sensing: Methods and Instrumentation, (8 November 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.257198

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