Xenon lighting adjusted to plant requirements
- GSF-Forschungszentrum fuer Umwelt und Gesundheit, Oberschleissheim (Germany)
The high luminous flux and spectral properties of xenon lamps would provide an ideal luminary for plant lighting if not excess IR radiation poses several problems for an application: the required filter systems reduce the irradiance at spectral regions of particular importance for plant development. Most of the economical drawbacks of xenon lamps are related to the difficult handling of that excess IR energy. Furthermore, the temporal variation of the xenon output depending on the oscillations of the applied AC voltage has to be considered for the plant development. However, xenon lamps outperform other lighting systems with respect to spectral stability, immediate response, and maximum luminance. Therefore, despite considerable competition by other lighting techniques, xenon lamps provide a very useful tool for special purposes. In plant lighting however, they seem to play a less important role as other lamp and lighting developments can meet these particular requirements at lower costs.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 62381
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9403214-; ON: DE95008170; TRN: 95:004109-0026
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International lighting in controlled environments workshop, Madison, WI (United States), 27-30 Mar 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]; Related Information: Is Part Of International lighting in controlled environments workshop: Proceedings; PB: 393 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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