Recently, discharge lamps are used as important artificial light sources in which light is produced by gas radiation. Due to their negative impedance characteristic, discharge lamps require an additional device called “ballast”. This current limiting device is divided into two categories of electromagnetic and electronic ballasts. Traditionally, most used ballasts were electromagnetic. However, they have high volume and heavy weight, flickering, poor regulation and low power factor. High frequency electronic ballasts are used extensively in light systems. Remarkable advantages of electronic ballast are small volume, no audible noise, long life, and no flickering. In order to improve the line current waveform and to adapt the output voltage of the converter to lamp, an isolated PFC (Power Factor Correction) converter can be used. Regularly, a basic electronic ballast consists of two main sections namely the PFC and the DC/AC inverter stage which has a relatively easy design procedure and good over all performance. However this structure has more circuit components and thus higher cost. In order to reduce cost, volume, and control complexity and to increase efficiency, the PFC stage and the inverter stage are combined to create a “single-stage electronic ballast”. In this thesis a single stage charge pump electronic ballast is proposed and analyzed which not only fulfils the required characteristics of such converters but also has advantage of single switch. Furthermore, this circuit provides the soft switching conditions. After the analysis of the proposed converter, the design procedure is presented using computer simulation results. The experimental results confirm circuit analysis.