1. Transfer of microwave energy along a filament plasma column in air
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Michel Pellet, B. Prade, Jean Larour, Aurélien Houard, André Mysyrowicz, Interaction Laser-Matière (ILM), Laboratoire d'optique appliquée (LOA), École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA Paris)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA Paris)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ministère de la défense, DGA, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École polytechnique (X)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) ,microwave ,General Physics and Astronomy ,02 engineering and technology ,01 natural sciences ,ultrashort laser ,Two-stream instability ,Filamentation ,Physics::Plasma Physics ,0103 physical sciences ,010306 general physics ,plasma ,Physics ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-OPTICS]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Optics [physics.optics] ,Dense plasma focus ,Waves in plasmas ,nonlinear optics ,General Engineering ,Plasma ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,filamentation ,Physics::Space Physics ,Electromagnetic electron wave ,Plasma channel ,Inductively coupled plasma ,Atomic physics ,0210 nano-technology - Abstract
International audience; We demonstrate the coupling of microwave radiation into a plasma channel formed by laser filamentation in air, leading to the amplification by two orders of magnitude of longitudinal oscillations of the plasma. Transfer of this longitudinal excitation towards unexcited region of the plasma column occurs over more than 10 cm, in good agreement with a theoretical model describing the propagation of a TM wave guided along the surface between air and plasma. We foresee that high power low frequency electromagnetic waves injected into a multi-filament plasma could initiate and sustain a long-lived plasma over several meters distance.
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- 2017
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