First observation of laser triggered lightning

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3343, Issue , 1998, Pages 281-288

  Yamanaka, Tatsuhiko ^a   Uchida, Shigeaki ^b   Shimada, Yoshinori ^b   Yasuda, Hirohiko ^c   Motokoshi, Shinji ^b   Tsubakimoto, Kouji ^a   Kawasaki, Zen Ichiro ^a   Ishikubo, Yuji ^c   Adachi, Mikio ^c   Yamanaka, Chiyoe ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

CO 2 laser; Laser induced breakdown; Laser triggered lightning; Lightning; Triggered lightning

Indexed keywords

CO 2 LASER; DISCHARGE PROCESS; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; FIELD STRENGTHS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN; LASER TRIGGER SYSTEMS; LASER TRIGGERED; LASER TRIGGERED LIGHTNING; ND LASERS; PLASMA CHANNELS; TALL OBJECTS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TRIGGER TIMINGS; TRIGGERED LIGHTNING;

EXPERIMENTS; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER DAMAGE; LASER PULSES; LASERS; LEAD; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PLASMAS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

LIGHTNING;

EID: 0038024701     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.321551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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