page_title: Flashtube
hierarchical_section_title: Flashtube
caption_attribution_description: English: Cropped still frame from an animation of a Xenon flash lamp being fired, licensed under the GFDL by the photographer, Gregory Maxwell.
context_page_description: A flashtube, also called a flashlamp, is an electric arc lamp designed to produce extremely intense, incoherent, full-spectrum white light for very short durations. Flashtubes are made of a length of glass tubing with electrodes at either end and are filled with a gas that, when triggered, ionizes and conducts a high voltage pulse to produce the light. Flashtubes are used mostly for photographic purposes but are also employed in scientific, medical, industrial, and entertainment applications.
context_section_description: A flashtube, also called a flashlamp, is an electric arc lamp designed to produce extremely intense, incoherent, full-spectrum white light for very short durations. Flashtubes are made of a length of glass tubing with electrodes at either end and are filled with a gas that, when triggered, ionizes and conducts a high voltage pulse to produce the light. Flashtubes are used mostly for photographic purposes but are also employed in scientific, medical, industrial, and entertainment applications.
caption: Helical xenon flashtube emitting greybody radiation as white light. (Animated version at the end)
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