Laser-guided lightning using kHz filamentation at 1030 nm

A. Houard; P. Walch; T. Produit; V. Moreno; B. Mahieu; A. Sunjerga; C. Herkommer; A. Mostajabi; U. Andral; Y.-B. André; M. Lozano; L. Bizet; M. C. Schroeder; G. Schimmel; M. Moret; O. Maurice; B. Esmiller; K. Michel; W. Haas; T. Metzger; M. Rubinstein; F. Rachidi; V. Cooray; A. Mysyrowicz; J. Kasparian; J. Kasparian; J.-P. Wolf

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe (CLEO/Europe 2023) and European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC 2023)
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2023),
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Laser-guided lightning using kHz filamentation at 1030 nm

A. Houard, P. Walch, T. Produit, V. Moreno, B. Mahieu, A. Sunjerga, C. Herkommer, A. Mostajabi, U. Andral, Y.-B. André, M. Lozano, L. Bizet, M. C. Schroeder, G. Schimmel, M. Moret, O. Maurice, B. Esmiller, K. Michel, W. Haas, T. Metzger, M. Rubinstein, F. Rachidi, V. Cooray, A. Mysyrowicz, J. Kasparian, and J.-P. Wolf

The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2023

Munich Germany
26–30 June 2023
ISBN: 979-8-3503-4599-5

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A. Houard, P. Walch, T. Produit, V. Moreno, B. Mahieu, A. Sunjerga, C. Herkommer, A. Mostajabi, U. Andral, Y. -. André, M. Lozano, L. Bizet, M. C. Schroeder, G. Schimmel, M. Moret, O. Maurice, B. Esmiller, K. Michel, W. Haas, T. Metzger, M. Rubinstein, F. Rachidi, V. Cooray, A. Mysyrowicz, J. Kasparian, and J. -. Wolf, "Laser-guided lightning using kHz filamentation at 1030 nm," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe (CLEO/Europe 2023) and European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC 2023), Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2023), paper cd_8_1.

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Abstract

Controlling lightning is a long-time dream of mankind. Along with the rapid evolution of laser technologies, the idea to develop lightning protection based on filamentation of high-power ultrashort-pulse lasers emerged in the 1990s [1]. The goal of the Laser Lightning Rod (LLR) project that started in 2017 was to investigate a new type of lightning protection based on the use of upward lightning discharges initiated through a high-repetition-rate terawatt laser [2]. To that end, a high-power laser was developed by Trumpf scientific with pulse energy in the Joule-range, 1 ps pulse duration, and a repetition rate of 1 kHz [3]. This CPA laser system is based on Yb-YAG thin-disk technology allowing amplification at very high average power at a wavelength of 1030 nm.

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