Cathodeon light sources are custom built for OEM clients on every continent, and are available to discerning scientists through an authorized network of over 80 dealers covering more than 50 countries.

Cathodeon lamps are available with natural quartz, synthetic quartz, UV glass, and Magnesium Fluoride envelopes to provide a range of cost/performance permutations.

Deuterium lamps can be operated in continuous and pulsed mode using a suitable power supply available from Cathodeon.

All variants are available in standard, data coded and Smith Heiftje background correction versions.

Each lamp is optimized with regard to geometry, filler gas, gas pressure and window type to assure high intensity, low noise and long lamp life.

Lamps are available with a 2 inch diameter for direct fitting into Perkin Elmer instruments  and with a 1.5 inch diameter for fitting into all other commercially available instruments.

Cathodeon offers an optimized range of bulb style lamps all of which offer low noise, excellent flash repeatability and long life.

Our manufacturing technology ensures an accurate arc position and discharge pattern, whilst reliable starting is assured when using the appropriate Cathodeon developed and manufactured trigger transformer.

Cathodeon TH lamps are manufactured from quartz, transmitting the lower wavelengths essential to scientific use. Power outputs range from 5W to 200W with lifetimes ranging from 50hrs to 2000hrs being possible dependent on operating conditions.

Our manufacturing technology ensures the most accurate and reproducible filament positioning available, combined with unmatchable reproducibility of color temperature.

Cathodeon lamps are designed and built to a rugged construction with a carefully selected magnesium fluoride (MgF) window or optionally a MgF lens hard sealed to the quartz body for exceptional life. The lamps may be further ruggedised to meet the high acceleration forces experienced in space travel.

This fundamental technology is also available in a lower specification axial lamp suitable for regular analytical use, and also available combined with Cathodeon's unique high power technology in a lamp capable of operating at up to 3 amps. When combined with alternative fill gases the technology is also the basis of the Cathodeon range of Photoionisation lamps.

Cathodeon manufactures an extensive range of DC and RF excited lamps filled with a variety of gases and available with quartz, sapphire, magnesium fluoride and lithium fluoride windows.

The natural resonance frequency of the gas is excited, producing spectral emission lines in the 112nm to 250nm range. When combined with the appropriate window ionizing energies in the 11.6 to 4.9 eV range are available.

Unique sealing technologies permitting high temperature processing gives a lamp of exceptionally high stability and output.

Cathodeon manufactures a wide range of mercury lamps operating at different pressures suitable for use in chemical processing, scientific instrumentation, calibration and sterilization amongst other applications.

High pressure lamps provide a limited ultra violet continuum output in addition to exceptionally intense emission line output, whilst low pressure lamps when operated with the appropriate Cathodeon power supply offer stability comparable to that of a Deuterium lamp.

Cathodeon manufactures a range of discharge, and a range of compact electrodeless lamps, which provide in excess of 100 discrete wavelengths in the range 174nm to 843nm. When operated with the universal Cathodeon power supply the lamps provide highly stable output spectra, which are physical constants for the particular element employed over a long lifetime.

Cathodeon manufactures a range of power supplies designed in house to maximize the performance of the Cathodeon range of specialist light sources. These power supplies will also run other similar types of lamp.

Most power supplies are available in boxed or OEM board form for incorporation into manufacturers own equipment. For the most common applications the boxed power supplies are CE marked.

As a service to our OEM clients to ensure that Cathodeon light sources are being operated within specification, our electronics design team is always available for consultation and advice.

Cathodeon's experience of a wide range of lamp manufacturing techniques, combined with our flexible, efficient manufacturing processes, enable us to work with researchers to efficiently prototype novel types of lamps, or manufacture small production runs at reasonable cost.

Examples of products currently in our range include see through hollow cathode lamps for measuring the optogalvanic effect, laser output stabilization lamps, krypton flash lamps, high power deep ultra violet lamps, radio frequency modulated lamps and many others.