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Laser-triggered lightning discharge

Advances in ultrafast optics in recent years have revived a keen interest in laser-induced dielectric breakdown study. While it is widely accepted that femtosecond laser pulses with peak powers reaching gigawatts can propagate over tens of metres under laboratory conditions, the dynamics underlying...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Khan, Nasrullah, Mariun, Norman, Aris, Ishak, Yeak, J.
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اللغة:English
منشور في: Institute of Physics Publishing 2002
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/115575/1/115575.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/115575/
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/4/1/361
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spelling my.upm.eprints.1155752025-03-07T01:03:54Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/115575/ Laser-triggered lightning discharge Khan, Nasrullah Mariun, Norman Aris, Ishak Yeak, J. Advances in ultrafast optics in recent years have revived a keen interest in laser-induced dielectric breakdown study. While it is widely accepted that femtosecond laser pulses with peak powers reaching gigawatts can propagate over tens of metres under laboratory conditions, the dynamics underlying this highly nonlinear phenomenon is yet not fully understood. Although initial research on laser-triggered lightning was started with infrared lasers, it was found that they are not suitable to initiate lightning. Recent published literature and experimental work favour the use of ultraviolet (UV) laser pulses as the appropriate means for laser-induced lightning discharge. An analytical solution based on Maxwell's equations has been developed for UV filamentation in air, arising from a dynamic oscillating balance between self-focusing, diffraction and plasma defocusing. This model suggests that UV (220-420 nm) 200 ps laser pulses with a peak power of around 50 MW(or 12.5 mJ input energy) and a beam size of 100 μm are the optimal tool to trigger outdoor lightning. The laser beam size remains relatively small (less than 0.3 mm) after a propagation distance of 200 m up into the normally cloudy and damp atmospheric conditions. Institute of Physics Publishing 2002-08 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/115575/1/115575.pdf Khan, Nasrullah and Mariun, Norman and Aris, Ishak and Yeak, J. (2002) Laser-triggered lightning discharge. New Journal of Physics, 4. art. no. 361. 61.1-61.20. ISSN 1367-2630; eISSN: 1367-2630 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/4/1/361 10.1088/1367-2630/4/1/361
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description Advances in ultrafast optics in recent years have revived a keen interest in laser-induced dielectric breakdown study. While it is widely accepted that femtosecond laser pulses with peak powers reaching gigawatts can propagate over tens of metres under laboratory conditions, the dynamics underlying this highly nonlinear phenomenon is yet not fully understood. Although initial research on laser-triggered lightning was started with infrared lasers, it was found that they are not suitable to initiate lightning. Recent published literature and experimental work favour the use of ultraviolet (UV) laser pulses as the appropriate means for laser-induced lightning discharge. An analytical solution based on Maxwell's equations has been developed for UV filamentation in air, arising from a dynamic oscillating balance between self-focusing, diffraction and plasma defocusing. This model suggests that UV (220-420 nm) 200 ps laser pulses with a peak power of around 50 MW(or 12.5 mJ input energy) and a beam size of 100 μm are the optimal tool to trigger outdoor lightning. The laser beam size remains relatively small (less than 0.3 mm) after a propagation distance of 200 m up into the normally cloudy and damp atmospheric conditions.
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author Khan, Nasrullah
Mariun, Norman
Aris, Ishak
Yeak, J.
spellingShingle Khan, Nasrullah
Mariun, Norman
Aris, Ishak
Yeak, J.
Laser-triggered lightning discharge
author_facet Khan, Nasrullah
Mariun, Norman
Aris, Ishak
Yeak, J.
author_sort Khan, Nasrullah
title Laser-triggered lightning discharge
title_short Laser-triggered lightning discharge
title_full Laser-triggered lightning discharge
title_fullStr Laser-triggered lightning discharge
title_full_unstemmed Laser-triggered lightning discharge
title_sort laser-triggered lightning discharge
publisher Institute of Physics Publishing
publishDate 2002
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/115575/1/115575.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/115575/
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/4/1/361
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