Ceravision

Ceravision is a privately owned lighting company based in Milton Keynes, UK. Ceravision is the inventor of a range of electrodeless lamps and integrated luminaires under the trade name ionCORE, the world's first High Efficiency Plasma (HEP) lighting system. Thus far, the lamp is not produced in styles suitable for the home and small business markets, but is marketed as high bay lighting for large warehouse spaces.

Electrodeless lamps have been recognized, since Nikola Tesla filed a patent in 1894, as having a number of advantages:

The main problems have been constraining the radio waves within the lamp, and generating RF power at low cost.

Earlier incarnations, such as the sulfur lamp, had been very large. The invention took advantage of the high dielectric constant of ceramic to create a very small waveguide to constrain and focus the radio waves. Though the resulting lamp was small and produced a large number of lumens per watt at the bulb, the lamp efficiency was low since 80-85% of the light generated is trapped inside the opaque ceramic waveguide.

Ceravision's invention was a clear quartz waveguide and integrated lamp, which forms a single piece construction. The generated light can now be collected because the waveguide is optically clear, giving excellent lamp lumens per watt. The integrated burner and waveguide, which is source of light, is very small meaning that it is possible to design exceptionally efficient luminaires. HID (high intensity discharge) luminaires have typical utilization efficiencies of 75%. Fluorescent lamp luminaires have efficiencies of 70% - meaning that 25% and 30% respectively of the light produced by the lamp is wasted. The ionCORE(TM) range has utilization efficiencies of more than 90%. The burner is integrated into the thick walled quartz waveguide, high powers from 100 - 5000W's are possible without damage to the lamp.

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