LOW-PRESSURE MERCURY LAMP, METHOD FOR OPERATION, AND USE OF MERCURY HALIDE IN THE DISCHARGE REGION OF SAME

摘要

Known low-pressure mercury lamps comprise a discharge vessel (2) having a wall made of silica glass, in which a filling gas, at least two electrodes (5) and a mercury source (8), such as an amalgam reservoir for example, are enclosed. To provide a high-power low-pressure mercury lamp proceeding herefrom, in which the effort for introducing and positioning the amalgam reservoir and other disadvantages associated with the amalgam reservoir are at least reduced or even completely eliminated, the invention proposes that the mercury source comprises a mercury halide (8).