Laser Triggered Lightning - Scenarios and Issues

Control of lightning is a dramatic challenge to nature. The lightning attacks to the electric power line make a lot of economical loss in the sophisticated modern society since electric power failure induces a lot of trouble in the computerized systems even if it is very short time. If the lightning...

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Published inRēzā kenkyū Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 533 - 540
Main Author YAMANAKA, Tatsuhiko
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Suita The Laser Society of Japan 1996
Laser Society of Japan
Subjects
CO2 laser
Laser plasma
Laser triggered lightning
Preliminary breakdown
Radar
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Summary:Control of lightning is a dramatic challenge to nature. The lightning attacks to the electric power line make a lot of economical loss in the sophisticated modern society since electric power failure induces a lot of trouble in the computerized systems even if it is very short time. If the lightning could be controlled one will be free from such a trouble and save the cost expensed for electric power failure guard system. The scenarios and issues of laser triggered lightning are reviewed presenting some experimental results as well as the mechanisms and types of lightning, characteristics of the long gap electric discharge and some results of triggered lightning by rockets.
ISSN:0387-0200
1349-6603
DOI:10.2184/lsj.24.533