Short-arc, ultra-high pressure mercury lamp

摘要

To reduce and prevent electrode displacement and at the same time to devise an arrangement of the side tube parts with high adhesion, a short-arc, ultra-high pressure discharge lamp a light emitting part in which there is a pair of opposed electrodes and which is filled with at least 0.15 mg/mm<3> of mercury is provided with side tube parts which extend from opposite sides of the light emitting part in which the electrodes are partially hermetically sealed and in which the electrodes are each welded in a central valley of a metal foil that has a cross section with an essentially inverted W-shape. The valley and flanking arches or peaks of the W-shape may be serpentine or sinusoidal, trapezoidal, or rectangular in addition to the traditional W-shape having acutely angled corners between straight legs.