HIGH POWER LASERS AND NEW APPLICATIONS
VICTOR V. APOLLONOV *
A. M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Vavilov str. 38, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The process of the development of lightning in the thunderstorm clouds is most studied, in this case the lightning can pass to clouds themselves - intra-cloud lightning, and they can strike into the earth - ground-based lightning. For the appearance of lightning it is necessary that in the relatively small, but not less than the certain critical, the volume of cloud was formed the electric field with the tension, sufficient for the beginning of the electrical discharge ~ of 1 MV/m, and in the substantial part of the cloud there would be a field with the average tension, sufficient for maintaining the discharge ~ of 0,1- 0,2 MV/m. Successful developments of high repetition rate P-P powerful lasers technology and technology of “Impulsar” system make it possible to foresee the possibility of well conducting channels realization with the length up to several ten and hundred of kilometers for the purpose of energy transfer for significant distances, creation of new and promising systems for the mastering of outer space power engineering and motivation for significant contribution to be done on that basis to an essential improvements of the global ecology of our planet.
Keywords: Jets, sprites, climate change, high power lasers, orbital electrical socket, electrical breakdown, Impulsar, launching of objects by laser, high power lasersoptical breakdown, shock waves, conductivity of dust plasma, optical breakdown.
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