Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Discharging or preventing accumulation of electric charge – By charged gas irradiation
Patent
1995-08-15
1998-03-10
Fleming, Fritz
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Discharging or preventing accumulation of electric charge
By charged gas irradiation
307149, H01H 322
Patent
active
057268550
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for enabling the creation of multiple extended conduction paths in the atmosphere including a chirped-pulse amplification laser system having a high peak-power laser capable of transmitting through the atmosphere a high-peak power ultrashort laser pulse. The laser pulse is configured to have a rough spacial profile and is of sufficient energy to create multiple electrically conductive ionized channels in the atmosphere.
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Bouvier Marcel
Braun Alan
Diels Jean-Claude
Mourou Gerard
Zhao Xin Miao
Fleming Fritz
The Regents of the University of Michigan
The University of New Mexico
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