Superior Quartz Products, Inc. manufacturers unexcelled quality short arc lamps to the graphic arts, photochemistry, medical, electro optics, search light, stage and studio projection lighting, optical instrumentation, solar simulation, military guidance, and fiber optic illumination industries. Offered are a wide range of short arc lamps, also known as compact arc lamps, with power levels ranging from 150 watts to 10,000 watts in an air cooled xenon or mercury xenon configuration and from 12,000 to 32,000 watts in a liquid cooled xenon configuration.  Superior Quartz Products' short arc lamps produce a highly stable uniform arc in the ultraviolet, visible and infrared spectral ranges.  With an arc length ranging from less than a millimeter to approximately a centimeter, these high-pressure gas discharge lamps provide the highest luminance and radiance of any continuously operated light source.  Precisely formed into a spherical or ellipsoidal shape, the short arc lamps are manufactured in either ozone producing or ozone free quartz.  The ozone free quartz blocks wavelengths below 254 nanometers.  Due to the required arc stability and uniformity of short arc lamps, most are designed for DC operation.  However, AC short arc lamps can also be manufactured for special requirements.