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See flash lamp.
By the late 1880s, Riis had begun photographing the interiors and exteriors of New York slums with a flash lamp.
Flash lamp, any of several devices that produce brief, intense emissions of light useful in photography and in the observation of objects in rapid motion.
The first laser, operated by Theodore H. Maiman in 1960, consisted of a rod of synthetic ruby (single-crystal Al2O3 doped with chromium) that was excited by a flash lamp.
The electronic flash lamp, commonly called a flashtube, or speedlight, consists of a transparent glass or quartz tube filled with xenon (or, occasionally, other noble gases) and fitted with electrodes.
The first flash lamp used in photography was invented in Germany in 1887; it consisted of a trough filled with Blitzlichtpulver ("flashlight powder"), a mixture of magnesium, potassium chlorate, and antimony sulfide.
At the point when he talks of his eerie feeling that the prehistoric artists may still be at work around the corner, I was reminded of the classic Charles Addams cartoon depicting two archaeologists examining an ancient cave painting with a flash lamp, one of them saying: "You're right.
He fired bright pulses from a photographer's flash lamp to excite chromium atoms in a crystal of synthetic ruby, a material he chose because he had studied carefully how it absorbed and emitted light and calculated that it should work as a laser.
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They are also close to Mallikarjuna et al.'s flash lamp-treated TCEs (110 and 170 Ω sq−1 with a respective T 550 nm of 90 and 95%) [31].
Since then, there have been many reports of the treatment of these lesions using different types of laser, including the argon, CO2, the Nd YAG laser, the flash lamp-pumped pulsed dye laser (FPDL) and more recently the long-pulsed tunable dye laser (LPTDL) [ 18, 19].
A 30 A commercial plasma torch was investigated with a lens-type schlieren setup, a vertical knife edge and a microsecond-flash lamp synchronized with a video camera.
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