Abstract: A luminaire for a rod-shaped fluorescent lamp provided with pin bases at both ends and having an elongated support profile whose width is only slightly larger or smaller than the diameter of the lamp envelope and which at both ends has sockets provided with contacts. Each socket has a groove to accommodate the base pins when inserting the lamp in an axially parallel manner. Intermediate members of an insulating material are arranged on the lamp bases, while the rear side of each intermediate member is provided with a cross limb extending parallel to the base pins and being formed in such a manner that the individual base pins are located on different sides of the cross limb. When inserting the lamp in the luminaire, the intermediate member engages the groove of a socket in a lock-tight manner, whereby the base pins come into contact with the socket contacts.

Abstract: A lamp includes a light source having a center and a light diffuser disc having two opposite faces and supported at a distance from the light source. One face of the light diffuser disc is provided with a prism structure which is symmetrical with respect to a normal that passes through the center of the light source and that is perpendicular to the faces of the light diffuser disc. The prism structure is formed of a plurality of prisms extending parallel to one another; each prism has a frontal flank oriented towards the normal and a rear flank oriented away from the normal. The angle of inclination of the frontal flanks gradually decreases from prism to prism in a direction away from the normal, while the angle of inclination of the rear flanks gradually increases at a decreasing rate, from prism to prism towards an upper limit value in a direction away from the normal.