The laser lightning rod system: Thunderstorm domestication

Applied Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1974, Pages 2292-2296

  Ball, Leonard M ^a  

^a Optical Industries Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHTNING PROTECTION;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 0016114070     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.13.002292     Document Type: Article

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