Introduction................................................................................................................................. 5
Part I. High conductivity channels for a laser lightning-protection system .................................... 6
Chapter 1. Electric-discharge guiding by a continuous laser-induced spark .......................... 6
1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 6
2. Experimental setup ............................................................................................................................ 7
3. Experimental results and discussion ............................................................................................... 10 4. Conclusions ...................................................................................................................................... 16
References ....................................................................................................................................... 17
Chapter 2. Experimental simulation of a laser lightning-protection system........................ 18
1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 18
2. Experimental setup .......................................................................................................................... 19
3. Experimental results and analisis ................................................................................................... 20 4. Conclusions ...................................................................................................................................... 25
References ...................................................................................................................................... 25
Chapter 3. Lightning and acology of atmosphere.............................................................. 27
1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 27
2. Power of lightning ........................................................................................................................... 27 3. Lightning in the natural capacitor "Earth-Cloud" ............................................................................ 29
4. Lightning in the natural capacitor "Cloud-Ionosphere" ................................................................... 34
5. Orbital electrical socket ................................................................................................................... 37
6. Conclusions ...................................................................................................................................... 38
References ....................................................................................................................................... 38
Part II. Impulsar as a background for high conductivity channels realization...........................
About the Author:
Prof. Victor Victorovich Apollonov is a doctor of physics and mathematics, and a professor at RANS and AES. He received the State Prize of USSR (1982) and Russia (2002). He is a leading specialist in the area of basic principles of creation and development of high power/energy laser systems and high power/energy laser radiation interaction with matter, and is a pioneer of various new branches of science - physical and technical fundamentals of high power laser optics and adaptive optics, investigation of physical processes in a high volume self-controlled volume discharges, creation of high power/energy continuous wave, pulsed and high repetition rate pulse-periodic laser systems, high intensity laser radiation interaction with matter, high power/energy laser application for an effective protection of valuable objects and water surface cleaning from oil films, medical applications for UV lasers. His recent investigations have focused on laser diode array phase-locking, mechanisms of shock waves merging for a rockets launch by high repetition rate pulse-periodic laser light, super-long conductive channels based on dust plasma using ablation, high repetition rate optical pulsating discharge applications, space debris elimination by laser, and scalable mono-module disk laser and have been implemented both in Russia and abroad. He is the author of more than 1700 publications,
Apollonov V.V. is a high profile scientist and well known around the globe for his more than 45 years of international scientific activity. He has participated in and organized over 60 international conferences, symposiums and workshops. Over the last 5 years, his scientific group has fulfilled more than 60 R&D contracts with customers from Japan, UK, Germany, France, China, Korea, Singapore and USA.
He is the General Director of "Energomashtechnika" Ltd and is a member of the European and American Physical Society, SPIE, AIAA, American Society for QE and a member of the Specialized Scientific Council of Russia. He is a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science and Academy of Engineering Sciences, and laureate of the State Prize of USSR (1982) and of Russia (2002).
