High-Conductivity Channels in Space

• Main Author: Apollonov, Victor (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, 103
• Subjects: Plasma (Ionized gases).; Lasers.; Photonics.; Space sciences.; Atoms.; Physics.; Plasma Physics.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields, Laser Matter Interaction.

This book discusses the physics of conductive channel development in space, air and vacuums and summarizes the attempts to create super-long conductive channels to study the upper atmosphere and to complete specific tasks related to energy transmission from the space to earth with high-voltage high...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I - High conductivity channels for a laser lightning-protection system
• Electric-discharge guiding by a continuous laser-induced spark
• Experimental simulation of a laser lightning-protection system
• Lightning and acology of atmosphere
• Part II - "Impulsar" as a background for high conductivity channels realization
• Interaction of an optical pulsed discharge with a gas
• Mechanism of shock waves merging in a laser jet engine
• Laser jet engine based on the resonance merging of shock waves
• Laser jet engine: the action of shock waves at low laser pulse repetition rate
• Simulation of high conductivity channels in space
• High conductivity channel expansion rate measurements
• "Impulsar": New application for high power high repetition rate pulse-periodic lasers
• Part III. Lasers and laser components for high conductivity channels implementation
• Laser source for wireless power transmission in space
• High power high repetition rate lasers
• High power lasers and new applications
• High power disk lasers
• High power molecular lasers
• High power HF(DF) lasers
• High power/energy optics
• New materials for high power/energy lasers and new technologies.