Laser Lamp Catalog - Laser Components - #1

history And capacity

Amglo's current management team has been in place since 1978 but its foundation has been „Making Light Behave" since 1935. Amglo's success is attributed to its continued investment in lamp technologies for specific industries that require custom engineered product. Amglo's entrance into the laser lamp market was delayed, and it was not until the industry consolidation of the mid 1990's that Amglo decided to further advance its technology in this product area. Amglo's long history of demonstrating high volume production has made it the VIABLE alternative to the traditional industry suppliers. Furthermore, Amglo's various technologies covering flashlamps, halogen, quartz halogen and metal halide (H.I.D.) lamps demonstrate a business diversification allowing for continued investment in manufacturing capacity, research and development programs.

Amglo is the largest North American manufacturer of flashlamps with Xenon lamp production facilities located in Bensenville, IL (U.S.A.) and Juarez (Mexico) totaling 65,000 factory square feet. Currently these facilities employ over 250 people manufacturing more than 1.75 million lamps a year, including 200,000 lamps of quartz construction. Amglo's production facilities are supported by its own equipment Fabrication Facility (Largo, FL) allowing additional production lines to be assembled quickly and economically.

PRODUCT

As most lamp types are custom to specific requirements it is difficult to present all possible variations in a catalogue. Historically, solid state laser systems have utilized xenon flashlamps that convert stored electrical energy into pulses of radiant energy producing a full spectrum of UV, visible and IR transmissions. Alternate systems using Krypton Arc lamps produce continuous radiation and operate in constant DC mode offering high Nd:YAG pumping efficiency.

In recent years, Intense Pulsed Light (IPL™) Systems have become very popular using xenon flashlamps for their full and flat (UV-visible-IR) spectrum in aesthetic/medical treatments. Typical treatments involve removal of unwanted hair, acne, psoriasis and lesions while offering solutions to common ophthalmologic problems. Typically these lamps operate in burst modes that comprise multiple pulses ranging from 3-10ms while lamp energies can exceed 90J/cm.

CONSTRUCTION

Most of the lamps represented in this overview are constructed by shrinking a portion of the glass envelope onto the electrode assembly to promote heat transfer from the anode and cathode under operation. This transfer can be further enhanced by the selection of thin walled glass tubing inside the arc area. The quality of tubing used is vigorously inspected for defects as these lamps operate at multiple atmospheres and are susceptible to rupture.

TECHNOLOGY

Amglo is unique to other flashlamp suppliers in that it manufactures its own proprietary cathodes internally using state-of-the art pressing in sintering processes. During Amglo's history, high load air-cooled/convection applications became routine providing Amglo with its strong foundation in cathode design. Enhanced cathode designs with modified tungsten matrixes, densities and varied backfill methods are continually studied. This "in house" capability promotes cathode customization specific for each application challenging historical benchmarks that have defined lamp lifetimes. Amglo's flashlamp facilities are supported by its Engineering Development Center in Largo, FL (USA) fully equipped with laboratory equipment and staff for all photometric, vibration, environmental and finite element and X-ray analysis of materials and structure.

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