HV discharges triggered by dual- and triple-frequency laser filaments
Plasma Physics
2019-04-16 v1 Optics
Abstract
We study the use of frequency upconversion schemes of near-IR picosecond laser pulses and compare their ability to guide and trigger electric discharges through filamentation in air. Upconversion, such as Second Harmonic Generation, is favorable for triggering electric discharges for given amount of available laser energy, even taking into account the losses inherent to frequency conversion. We focus on the practical question of optimizing the use of energy from a given available laser system and the potential advantage to use frequency conversion schemes.
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@article{arxiv.1904.07030,
title = {HV discharges triggered by dual- and triple-frequency laser filaments},
author = {Thomas Produit and Pierre Walch and Guillaume Schimmel and Benoît Mahieu and Clemens Herkommer and Robert Jung and Thomas Metzger and Knut Michel and Yves-Bernard André and André Mysyrowicz and Aurélien Houard and Jérôme Kasparian and Jean-Pierre Wolf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.07030},
year = {2019}
}