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Triggering and guiding of megavolt discharges by laser-induced filaments under rain conditions

Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 5781 (2004); doi:10.1063/1.1829165

Issue Date: 6 December 2004

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R. Ackermann
Teramobile, LASIM, UMR CNRS 5579, Université Lyon 1, 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

K. Stelmaszczyk and P. Rohwetter
Teramobile, Institut für Experimentalphysik, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany

G. Méjean, E. Salmon, J. Yu, and J. Kasparian
Teramobile, LASIM, UMR CNRS 5579, Université Lyon 1, 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

G. Méchain
Teramobile, LOA, UMR CNRS 7639, ENSTA-Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de l'Yvette, Chemin de la Hunière, F-91761 Palaiseau Cedex, France

V. Bergmann, S. Schaper, B. Weise, T. Kumm, K. Rethmeier, and W. Kalkner
Institut für Energie- und Automatisierungstechnik, TU Berlin, Einsteinufer 11, D-10587 Berlin, Germany

L. Wöste
Teramobile, Institut für Experimentalphysik, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany

J. P. Wolf
Teramobile, LASIM, UMR CNRS 5579, Université Lyon 1, 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
We demonstrate laser control of high-voltage discharges over a gap of 1.2 m filled with a dense water cloud. Self-guided filaments generated by ultrashort laser pulses are transmitted through the cloud and ionize a continuous plasma channel. The cloud typically reduces the discharge probability in given experimental conditions by 30%, but has almost no influence on the threshold required to trigger single discharge events, both in electrical field and laser energy. This result is favorable for real-scale lightning control applications. ©2004 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 1 July 2004; accepted 5 October 2004
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 52.80.Hc
    Glow; corona discharges
  • 52.50.Jm
    Plasma production and heating by laser beams including laser–foil, laser–cluster, etc
  • 52.80.Mg
    Arcs; sparks; lightning; atmospheric electricity
  • 92.60.Pw
    Atmospheric electricity
  • YEAR: 2004

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