Wow. That's a lot of extra steps compared to what they do with other discharge lamps. I'm not an authority in this area and I don't know proper terminology, s

Wow. That's a lot of extra steps compared to what they do with other discharge lamps. I'm not an authority in this area and I don't know proper terminology, so forgive me if I'm mistaken here. There must be some good reasons for all of this. Probably a long list of things to do with optics, power density, and contamination. Here is a video of a rubidium standard teardown that I like to share. There aren't many places to actually see a discharge lamp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymV9LwhD0W0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymV9LwhD0W0