Electric events synchronized with laser filaments in thunderclouds

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5757-5763

  Kasparian, Jérôme ^a,b   Ackermann, Roland ^a   André, Yves Bernard ^c   Méchain, Grégoire ^c   Méjean, Guillaume ^a   Prade, Bernard ^c   Rohwetter, Philipp ^d   Salmon, Estelle ^a   Stelmaszczyk, Kamil ^d   Yu, Jin ^a   Mysyrowicz, André ^c   Sauerbrey, Roland ^e   Wöste, Ludger ^d   Wolf, Jean Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c LABORATOIRE D OPTIQUE APPLIQUÉE   (France)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CORONA; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FILAMENTS (LAMP); THUNDERSTORMS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ELECTRIC EVENTS; LASER FILAMENTS;

LIGHTNING;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; HEAT; LASER; LIGHTNING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; HEAT; LASERS; LIGHTNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 42449110811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005757     Document Type: Article

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