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Physics and technology of Laser Lightning Control
Thomas Produit, Jérôme Kasparian, Farhad Rachidi +3
The recent development of high average, high peak power lasers has revived the effort of using lasers as a potential tool to influence natural lightning. Although impressive, the c…
Laser-guided lightning
Aurélien Houard, Pierre Walch, Thomas Produit +25
Electric currents circulating between charged clouds and the earth surface during lightning discharges are responsible for considerable damages and casualties. It is therefore impo…
Air hydrodynamics of the ultrafast laser-triggered spark gap
E. W. Rosenthal, I. Larkin, A. Goffin +4
We present space and time resolved measurements of the air hydrodynamics induced by ultrafast laser pulse excitation of the air gap between two electrodes at high potential differe…
Molecular Quantum Wakes for Clearing Fog
Malte C. Schroeder, Ilia Larkin, Thomas Produit +3
High intensity laser filamentation in air has recently demonstrated that, through plasma generation and its associated shockwave, fog can be cleared around the beam, leaving an opt…
HV discharges triggered by dual- and triple-frequency laser filaments
Thomas Produit, Pierre Walch, Guillaume Schimmel +10
We study the use of frequency upconversion schemes of near-IR picosecond laser pulses and compare their ability to guide and trigger electric discharges through filamentation in ai…
Free space laser telecommunication through fog
Guillaume Schimmel, Thomas Produit, Denis Mongin +2
Atmospheric clearness is a key issue for free space optical communications (FSO). We present the first active method to achieve FSO through clouds and fog, using ultrashort high in…