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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 16, Issue 8, Pages 5757-5763Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005757
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We investigated the possibility to trigger real-scale lightning using ionized filaments generated by ultrashort laser pulses in the atmosphere. Under conditions of high electric field during two thunderstorms, we observed a statistically significant number of electric events synchronized with the laser pulses, at the location of the filaments. This observation suggests that corona discharges may have been triggered by filaments. (C) 2008 Optical Society of America.
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