Power supply for microwave discharge light source

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A power supply circuit for a magnetron adapted to supply microwave energy to an electrodeless discharge bulb is disclosed the circuit comprises a rectifier coupled across a commercial AC voltage source, a filter for smoothing the output of the rectifier, an inverter for converting the DC voltage supplied from the filter into a high frequency AC voltage a step-up, transformer for stepping up the high frequency AC voltage outputted from the inverter, and a rectifier which rectifies the high voltage AC output of the transformer into a unidirectional voltage which is supplied to the magnetron. The inverter switching is controlled by a pulse width modulation control circuit to maintain the …