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Remote triggering of air-gap discharge by a femtosecond laser filament and postfilament at distances up to 80 m

A. Couairon
Aurélien Houard

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We experimentally observed laser-induced remote high-voltage discharge triggering between two needle electrodes with half-a-cm spacing. The discharge was initiated by a 744-nm, 90-fs, 6-mJ laser pulse undergoing filamentation in air. For the direct voltage below the self-breakdown threshold, triggering of air-gap discharge was synchronized with a 10-Hz laser repetition rate and occurred between 40 and 80 m of the propagation path. No discharge guiding was observed. The experimentally registered and simulated remote triggering probability was above 80% in the range of 45–60 m from laser output and about 50% in the range of 60–80 m. The probability decreases as the postfilament hot spot diverges with a simultaneous increase in stochastic laser beam wandering.
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hal-03312461 , version 1 (02-08-2021)

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O. G Kosareva, D. V Mokrousova, N. A Panov, I. A Nikolaeva, D. E Shipilo, et al.. Remote triggering of air-gap discharge by a femtosecond laser filament and postfilament at distances up to 80 m. Applied Physics Letters, 2021, 119 (4), pp.041103. ⟨10.1063/5.0057544⟩. ⟨hal-03312461⟩
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