Patent ID: 7298089

Claim:
A high-pressure discharge lamp comprising: a lamp bulb of silica glass encapsulating mercury, an inactive gas, and a mixed halogen gas containing at least two halogen gases, and at least a pair of electrodes disposed in said lamp bulb in confronting relation to each other, wherein said mixed halogen gas contains at least one of an iodine-based halogen gas, a bromine-based halogen gas, and a chlorine-based halogen gas, and a type and content of a primary halogen gas whose content is the greatest in said mixed halogen gas are determined based on a bulb wall load, wherein said bulb wall load L (W/mm 2 ) is in a range of 0.8≦L<1.0, said primary halogen gas comprises the iodine-based halogen gas, and the content of the iodine-based halogen gas in said mixed halogen gas is in a range from 10 −8 μmol/mm 3 to 10 −6 μmol/mm 3 .