A HIGH-POWER SOURCE OF OPTICAL RADIATION WITH MICROWAVE EXCITATION

Abstract

For more than 50 years, interest to the microwave heating technology has not weakened. In addition to the traditional areas of its application, which described in detail in [1], recently there has been an expansion of technological possibilities for the use of microwave energy associated with the impact of electromagnetic waves of the microwave range on various materials (sintering of metal and ceramic powders) and media, including plasma [2]. One such new direction is the creation of high-power and environmentally friendly sources of optical radiation on the basis of an electrodeless sulfur lamp with microwave excitation [2, 3]. The purpose of this paper is to the further development of the theory and practice of microwave excitation by the electrodeless sulfur lamps, improvement the energy efficiency during energy conversion into the optical radiation and widening the application of new light sources in real practice. The results of the computer modeling of conversion process of the microwave energy into optical radiation energy are presented. The simulation results are compared with experimental data. It is shown that additional use of the solar panels for the reverse conversion of the optical radiation into DC energy with follow-up its using in the circuits of secondary power supply allows improving the energy efficiency of the light source.   References Microwave Power Engineering. Edited by E.C. Okress. V. 1, 2. Academic Press, New York & London. 1968.A.N. Didenko, SVCh-energetika. Teoriya i praktika. – Moscow: Nauka. 2003.- 445 s.G. Churyumov, T. Frolova, “Microwave Energy and Light Energy Transformation: Methods, Schemes and Designs. Microwave Energy and Light Energy Transformation: Methods, Schemes and Designs” // In book “Emerging Microwave Technologies in Industrial, Agricultural, Medical and Food Processing.” Edited by Kok Yeow You, IntechOpen, 2018. pp. 75-91.