Observation of large arrays of plasma filaments in air breakdown by 1.5-MW 110-GHz gyrotron pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Hidaka, Yoshiteru ^a   Choi, E M ^a   Mastovsky, I ^a   Shapiro, M A ^a   Sirigiri, J R ^a   Temkin, R J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; GYROTRONS;

AIR BREAKDOWN; PLASMA FILAMENT ELONGATION; PLASMA FILAMENTS; SEQUENTIAL GENERATION;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 38549181564     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.035003     Document Type: Article

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