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Purchasing Advisor for Flash Lamps

Find all you need for professionally buying flash lamps: a comprehensive expert-curated directory of suppliers, scientific and technical background information, and an interactive AI-based tool with guidance for a structured decision process.

Top-level product category: icon non-laser light sources

More general product categories: gas discharge lamps

Related product categories: arc lamps, pump chambers, lamp-pumped lasers

Flash lamps are gas discharge lamps operated in a pulsed mode. They can be used for the pumping of solid-state lasers, providing high-intensity light in short bursts. Common gases used in flash lamps include xenon and krypton, each offering different characteristics suited to various applications.

Interactive Purchase Decision Tool

Purchasing high-value photonics products is a substantial responsibility. Using a structured decision-making process and high quality supplier data helps a lot:

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How Responsible Purchase Decisions for Expensive Goods Like Lasers Are Done Explanations on this purchasing tool

Go through the process:

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

encyclopedia article flash lamps lamp-pumped lasers

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you purchase.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying flash lamps. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for flash lamps. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

4. Document the decision process

It is essential to document your purchasing process, not only its result (chosen supplier):

  • You will find it easier next time.
  • If something goes wrong, you can defend your decision by showing that you properly considered all important aspects. Or you see what needs to be done better next time.

Our interactive tool makes it easy: Fill out the form, and in the end print it to a PDF. Note that the document will show all sections (including those not currently shown on the screen), while omitting some irrelevant details such as the page navigation.

Suppliers for Flash Lamps

18 suppliers for flash lamps are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which two present their product descriptions and images. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Megawatt Lasers
P.O. Box 24190
Hilton Head Island, SC 29925–4190
United States
Profile page  Website  
flash lamps

MegaWatt Lasers Inc. has extensive experience in the design and sourcing of xenon and krypton filled flash lamps. MegaWatt also has an extensive inventory of flash lamps to fit the various solid state pump cavities that we produce.

Product-specific web page
Hamamatsu Photonics Europe
Arzbergerstr. 10
82211 Herrsching
Germany
Profile page  Website  
flash lamps

Hamamatsu Photonics provides high-quality, high-precision xenon flash lamps, as well as peripheral devices such as specially designed trigger sockets and power supplies to extract maximum performance from xenon flash lamps. Easy-to-use lamp modules integrated with those peripheral devices are also available.

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Other Suppliers

Camlin Ltd.
United Kingdom
Cascade Laser Corporation
United States
Directed Light Inc.
United States
Excelitas Noblelight GmbH
Germany
Excelitas Technologies Corp.
United States
First Light Lamps Ltd
United Kingdom
Heraeus Holding GmbH
Germany
Heraeus Conamic
Germany
Laser Components GmbH
Germany
Profile page  Website  
Laser S.O.S. Ltd.
United Kingdom
Sichuan MetalMiracle Industry Corp.
China
Profile page  Website  
New Source Technology LLC
United States
Profile page  Website  
TJS, Inc.
United States
Tokyo Instruments, Inc.
Japan
Wavelength Opto-Electronic (S) Pte Ltd
Singapore
XENON Corporation
United States

If any displayed information is incorrect (e.g., a listed supplier does not offer such products) or legally problematic, please notify RP Photonics so that the problem can be solved.