Engineering:FEL lamp
The FEL lamp (less accurately called a light bulb) is an ANSI standard 1000 watt quartz halogen lamp with a G9.5 medium 2-pin base used in many stage and studio lights that costs around $12 and is available from a number of manufacturers including GE, Osram, Ushio, Eiko, and Philips. Note that the term FEL is an ANSI designation (not an acronym).[1]
Description
FEL lamps are a working standard used to ensure optical equipment meets NIST standards.[2] Specially seasoned and calibrated FEL lamps are used in laboratories as radiance and irradiance standards (related to luminance and illuminance) used to calibrate photometers, light meters, spectrophotometers and other laboratory instruments.
An FEL lamp purchased from NIST that has been calibrated for light output, color temperature, and spectral energy distribution is over ten thousand dollars. NIST Traceable FEL lamps are available from commercial suppliers.[citation needed]
Sockets
Matching sockets for the G9.5 base include Sylvania TP22, TP220, Buhl Electric QEW-2, QEW-21, QEW-22, Bender + Wirth 968, Ushio: C-3, C-3(A). The calibration lamps are generally modified to use a larger bi-post base that fits into special kinematic mount sockets for precise optical alignment.
References
- ↑ "Once is Enough in Radiometric Calibrations (includes a typical spectral plot)". http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/jres/112/1/V112.N01.A03.pdf.
- ↑ Howard W. Yoon and Charles E. Gibson (July 2011). NIST Measurement Services: Special Irradiance Calibrations (Report). National Institute of Science and Technology. https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication250-89.pdf.
External links
- Honeywell Floor Lamp
- OSA Handbook of Applied Photometry
- Characterization of Modified FEL Quartz-Halogen Lamps for Photometric Standards
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