Letters to the editor

Possibility of simulating ball lightning with a laser

S. I. Yakovlenko


Abstract: A proposal is made to form a nonideal plasma bunch by ionizing a working medium (a vapor) with a laser having a photon energy close to the ionization energy. Recent theoretical investigations indicate that such a plasma should recombine anomalously slowly.

UDC: 621.373.826:551.594

PACS: 52.80.Mg, 52.20.Fs, 52.25.Fi

Received: 27.09.1991

 English version: Soviet Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1992, 22:1, 1–2

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