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Applied Physics LettersVolume 100, Issue 18, 30 April 2012, Article number 181112

Tesla coil discharges guided by femtosecond laser filaments in air(Article)

  • aLaboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA ParisTech, Ecole Polytechnique, 91761 Palaiseau, France
  • bLaboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Palaiseau, France

Abstract

A Tesla coil generator was designed to produce high voltage pulses oscillating at 100 kHz synchronisable with a nanosecond temporal jitter. Using this compact high voltage generator, we demonstrate reproducible meter long discharges in air at a repetition rate of 1 Hz. Triggering and guiding of the discharges are performed in air by femtosecond laser filaments. © 2012 American Institute of Physics.

Indexed keywords

Engineering uncontrolled termsHigh voltage generatorsHigh voltage pulseRepetition rateTemporal jitter
Engineering controlled terms:Electric transformersUltrashort pulses
Engineering main heading:Laser beams
  • ISSN: 00036951
  • CODEN: APPLA
  • Source Type: Journal
  • Original language: English
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4711208
  • Document Type: Article

  Brelet, Y.; Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée, ENSTA ParisTech, Ecole Polytechnique, France
© Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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