Femtosecond laser-guided electric discharge in air. Academic Article

abstract

• The filament due to the self-guided propagation of an infrared femtosecond laser pulse in atmospheric-pressure air is used to trigger and guide an electric discharge. The long low density plasma channel due to the filament is first heated by the Joule effect during an initial transient plasma stage. The heated channel of recombined gas then hydrodynamically expands radially. The onset of a discharge starts when the density depression on axis reaches the threshold discharge value. This model is supported by detailed experimental and numerical analysis.

authors

• Tzortzakis, Stylianos

published proceedings

• Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

altmetric score

• 5.232

author list (cited authors)

• Tzortzakis, S., Prade, B., Franco, M., Mysyrowicz, A., Hller, S., & Mora, P.

citation count

• 118

complete list of authors

• Tzortzakis, S||Prade, B||Franco, M||Mysyrowicz, A||Hüller, S||Mora, P

publication date

• November 2001

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences

PubMed Central ID

• 11736149

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevE.64.057401

start page

• 057401

volume

• 64

issue

• 5 Pt 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreve.64.057401