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Progress towards lightning control using lasers
Jérôme Kasparian
1, 2
Roland Ackermann
1
Yves-Bernard André
3
Grégoire Méchain
3
Guillaume Méjean
1
Bernard Prade
3
Philipp Rohwetter
4
Estelle Salmon
1
Kamil Stelmaszczyk
4
Jin Yu
1
André Mysyrowicz
3
Roland Sauerbrey
5
Ludger Woeste
4
Jean-Pierre Wolf
2
Jérôme Kasparian 1, 2
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Roland Ackermann 1
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Yves-Bernard André 3
Author IdHAL : yves-bernard-andre
Grégoire Méchain 3
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Kamil Stelmaszczyk 4
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Jin Yu 1
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André Mysyrowicz 3
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Roland Sauerbrey 5
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Ludger Woeste 4
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Jean-Pierre Wolf 2
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LASIM - Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Ionique et Moléculaire (Bât. A. Kastler 43 Bd du 11 Novembre 1918 69622 VILLEURBANNE CEDEX - France)
- UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (43, boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex - France)
- Université de Lyon (92 rue Pasteur - CS 30122, 69361 Lyon Cedex 07 - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5579 (France)
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GAP - Group of Applied Physics [Geneva] (University of Geneva 24 rue du Général-Dufour 1211 Genève 4 - Switzerland)
- University of Geneva [Switzerland] (Bd du Pont-d'Arve 40, CH-1211 Geneva 4 - Switzerland)
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LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée (828, boulevard des Maréchaux 91762 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- ENSTA Paris - École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (828, boulevard des Maréchaux 91762 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- X - École polytechnique (École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7639 (France)
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Institut für Experimentalphysik (Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin Germany - Germany)
- Freie Universität Berlin (Kaiserswerther Str. 16-18, 14195 Berlin - Germany)
Abstract : Lightning research needs on-demand lightning strikes, because of the random character of natural lightning. Lasers have been proposed as alternatives to the current technique using rocket-pulled wires, because they would expectedly provide more flexibility. However, high-energy, nanosecond lasers cannot provide long connected plasma channels. In contrast, we recently reported the triggering of electric events in thunderclouds using ultrashort laser pulses. Further improvements of the laser pulse sequence and experiment geometry are discussed.
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- HAL Id : hal-00458450, version 1
- DOI : 10.2971/jeos.2008.08035
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Jérôme Kasparian, Roland Ackermann, Yves-Bernard André, Grégoire Méchain, Guillaume Méjean, et al.. Progress towards lightning control using lasers. Journal of the European Optical Society : Rapid publications, European Optical Society, 2008, 3, pp.08035. ⟨10.2971/jeos.2008.08035⟩. ⟨hal-00458450⟩
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