Short-pulse lasers for weather control

JP Wolf - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Filamentation of ultra-short TW-class lasers recently opened new perspectives in
atmospheric research. Laser filaments are self-sustained light structures of 0.1–1 mm in …

Physics and technology of laser lightning control

T Produit, J Kasparian, F Rachidi… - Reports on Progress …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent development of high average, high peak power lasers has revived the effort of
using lasers as a potential tool to influence natural lightning. Although impressive, the …

Femtosecond laser filament induced condensation and precipitation in a cloud chamber

J Ju, J Liu, H Liang, Y Chen, H Sun, Y Liu, J Wang… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
A unified picture of femtosecond laser induced precipitation in a cloud chamber is proposed.
Among the three principal consequences of filamentation from the point of view of …

Tunnel ionization, population trapping, filamentation and applications

SL Chin, H Xu - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The advances in femtosecond Ti-sapphire laser technology have led to the discovery of a
profusion of new physics. This review starts with a brief historical account of the …

Laser vaporization of cirrus-like ice particles with secondary ice multiplication

M Matthews, F Pomel, C Wender, A Kiselev, D Duft… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
We investigate the interaction of ultrashort laser filaments with individual 90-μm ice particles,
representative of cirrus particles. The ice particles fragment under laser illumination. By …

Laser induced aerosol formation mediated by resonant excitation of volatile organic compounds

V Shumakova, E Schubert, T Balčiūnas, M Matthews… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Since its first demonstration, laser induced aerosol formation (LIAF) has been studied in
various environmental conditions and laser parameters. LIAF driven by UV and near-IR …

Laser-filamentation-induced water condensation and snow formation in a cloud chamber filled with different ambient gases

Y Liu, H Sun, J Liu, H Liang, J Ju, T Wang, Y Tian… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We investigated femtosecond laser-filamentation-induced airflow, water condensation and
snow formation in a cloud chamber filled respectively with air, argon and helium. The mass …

In-situ visualization of multiple filament competition dynamic during nonlinear propagation of femtosecond laser

P Qi, L Lin, Q Su, N Zhang, L Sun, W Liu - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
In this work, multiple filamentation competition of femtosecond pulse in methanol is studied
both experimentally and numerically. The visualization of multiple filamentation competition …

[PDF][PDF] 飞秒激光成丝诱导形成水凝物的机理研究进展

曾庆伟, 高太长, 刘磊, 刘西川, 胡帅, 张克瑾… - 红外与激光 …, 2019 - researchgate.net
近些年, 飞秒激光成丝诸多非线性效应及其潜在应用逐渐成为超短脉冲激光领域研究的重要方向
之一. 飞秒激光成丝诱导水汽凝结, 降雪和破碎冰晶二次增长等方面的探索研究 …

Numerical investigation on the heat deposition characteristics of femtosecond laser pulses undergoing multiple filaments

Q Zeng, L Liu, J Ju, S Hu, K Zhang - Physica Scripta, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this study, the heat deposition characteristics of laser filaments formed by femtosecond
laser pulses with different initial energy under influences of external focusing are …