Useful Lifetime More than Five Times Conventional Xenon Lamps (10,000 hrs at 50% Intensity)
Less than 2% Mercury Content of Typical HID Lamps
Free-Space, Focused Beam
USB 2.0 Connection and GUI Interface Included
Thorlabs' High-Power Light Sources are solid-state plasma light sources (LIFI®) that combine the best features of solid-state electronics and full spectrum plasma emitters. The HPLS series uses a dielectric resonant cavity to efficiently couple power from a solid-state power amplifier into a high-intensity discharge vessel unlike other electrodeless sources. The results are a long life (>10,000 hours**) and a complete color spectrum, making this source ideal for applications such as endoscopy, microscopy, and other medical lighting and inspection applications. This unit also offers many additional features including a USB 2.0 control interface and instantaneous intensity dimming.
For complete list of specifications, please see the Specs tab.
Item #
HPLS-30-02
HPLS-30-03
HPLS-30-04
Wavelength Range
350 to 700 nm
Time to Brightness (Turn on to 90%)
10 sec Typ (30 sec Max)
Typical Luminous Flux
2260 lm
1950 lm
2800 lm
Correlated Color Temp
6400 Kelvin (Typ)
7650 Kelvin
6500 Kelvin
UVA Output (315 - 400 nm)
0.6 W (UV Screened)
1.0 W (Typ)
0.6 W (UV Screened)
VIS Output (400 - 750 nm)*
10.2 W
NIR Output (750 - 1400 nm)*
2.5 W
IR Output (1400 - 3000 nm)*
0.6 W
* Measured into 5 mm diameter circular aperture with NA = 0.5
At the heart of LIFI® is the bulb sub-assembly where a sealed bulb is embedded in a dielectric material. This design is more reliable than conventional light sources that insert degradable electrodes into the bulb. The dielectric material serves two purposes: first as a waveguide for the RF energy transmitted by the RF Power Amplifier Circuit (PA) and second as an electric field concentrator that focuses energy in the bulb. The energy from the electric field rapidly heats the material in the bulb to a plasma state that emits light of high intensity and full spectrum.
**Note: The lifetime of >10,000 hours is specified for use at 50% of the original output.
Response from Javier at Thorlabs to w.m.vanspengen: The new HPLS source with liquid light guide output will be available in October.
Poster: w.m.vanspengen
Posted Date: 2010-08-26 05:29:37.0
When would this product with fiber coupling be available?
Poster: Thorlabs
Posted Date: 2010-08-18 13:29:57.0
Response from Javier at Thorlabs to jycheng: Thank you for your feedback. The current design of the HPLS-30-03 only allows for freespace output. At its focus point, the output from the lamp can get very hot, and can easily damage fiber bundles or liquid light guides. We are currently developing a new version of the HPLS sources with output coupled to a liquid light guide. These will be temperature controlled, and will be optimized for high coupling efficiency. I will contact you directly with more information.
Poster: jycheng
Posted Date: 2010-08-17 23:05:41.0
About the HPLS-30-03. How do I output the light. Is a fiber included with the light source?
Poster: Thorlabs
Posted Date: 2010-07-29 17:48:17.0
Response from Javier at Thorlabs to Jia Jingyu: I will send you spectral data in Excel format for all the HPLS sources. We will also post this information on the web shortly. In order to measure the intensity stability, you can use a thermopyle sensor along with a power meter, and log the power fluctuation over time. Also, the output of the unit is not collimated, it is focused. The aperture diameter is 16 mm, and the light focues 7.4 mm away from the tip of the cone (for the 02 and 03 units), and 8.36 mm (for 04 unit).
Poster: jiajingyuwhu
Posted Date: 2010-07-29 11:40:20.0
Can you provide spectral Power Distribution of HPLS-30-04? Ive found it on you website of Graphs. But I need to know the excact data of ASCII.Can you provid it? By the way, if I buy your product, how I can measure its intensity stability?
And what is the diameter of output light beam?
Wish you reply!~~~
Poster: jiajingyuwhu
Posted Date: 2010-07-27 23:32:00.0
I want to know , if I buy this light source, can you send me detail spectral intensity vs wavelength in (mw). I need it as a standard light source, so could you send me this as a ASCII data document with this light source
Poster: Thorlabs
Posted Date: 2010-07-27 15:04:13.0
Response from Javier at Thorlabs to jiajingyuwhu: Thank you for your feedback. We can send you data with the spectral power density distribution in Excel format. I will contact you directly with this information.
Poster: Adam
Posted Date: 2010-05-25 14:59:57.0
A response from Adam at Thorlabs: We do have data that we can send out to you via your email address. Since none was provided, please feel free to contact techsupport@Thorlabs.com to get this data. We will also add this to the website.
Poster:
Posted Date: 2010-05-25 13:32:36.0
It appears that there is still apprecible optical power outside the 350 to 850 nm window that is shown on the spectral plots the reside on the Plots tab, it would be useful to know how much total energy is in the UV and in the IR. In addition a plot of the spectrum in these two regions would be very useful. For some applications i will need to block the unwanted light and in others i would want to utilizes these two regions.
Poster: apalmentieri
Posted Date: 2009-12-21 17:40:59.0
A response from Adam at Thorlabs: Please note that we have added the units to the top graph. They were arbitrary units as it was an intensity measurement. We are still planning to add more data on the compressed scaled data, but are cross checking the current data we have to make sure it is accurate. We hope to have this up on the web soon.
Poster: apalmentieri
Posted Date: 2009-12-21 17:40:59.0
A response from Adam at Thorlabs: Please note that we have added the units to the top graph. They were arbitrary units as it was an intensity measurement. We are still planning to add more data on the compressed scaled data, but are cross checking the current data we have to make sure it is accurate. We hope to have this up on the web soon.
Poster: apalmentieri
Posted Date: 2009-12-21 14:59:29.0
A response from Adam at Thorlabs: The plots were taken without temperature with the laser sitting on a bench table. Nine spectral response plots were taken at intervals from 1/4 hr up to 24 hrs. These 9 plots are then subtracted from the reference to show stability up to a 24 hour period. We have asked our engineers about the units and are waiting to hear back. In regards to the scaling, we hope to add data that is not compressed to a few millimeters. This should be up on the web soon.
Poster:
Posted Date: 2009-12-21 08:46:58.0
Long term plots need a little more details, what are the conditions under which these plots are taken. Is each plot a different unit as you move down the page from plot to plot, and what are the groups of lines at the bottom of each plot, are these two spectral plots that were subtracted from the reference trace. If there are having them on another scale that doesnt compress the data all down to a few millimeters would seem more reasonable.
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HPLS-30-02
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Light Source, Focused, NA 0.50, Lumens 2260
