SPREADING A HIGH-VOLTAGE STREAMER THROUGH AN AIR CHANNEL

SPREADING A HIGH-VOLTAGE STREAMER THROUGH AN AIR CHANNEL WITH THE LASER-INDUCED FREE ELECTRONS

V.A. Almazov
The All-Russian electrical engineering institute, a state scientific center, Moscow, Russia

V.I. Barinov
The All-Russian research institute of interindustrial information - a federal informative and analytical center of the defense industry, a state unitary enterprise, Moscow, Russia

It is discussed the problems of spreading a high-voltage discharge streamer along the air channel with electron conductivity, which is induced, for example, by the laser radiation through the multiphoton ionization and supported by the second laser radiation owing to the electrons photodetachment from the O₂ negative ions.