High-Conductivity Channels in Space

Prof. Victor Victorovich Apollonov is a doctor of physics and mathematics, and a professor at RANS and AES. He received the State Prize of USSR (1982) and Russia (2002). He is a leading specialist in the area of basic principles of creation and development of high power/energy laser systems and high power/energy laser radiation interaction with matter, and is a pioneer of various new branches of science - physical and technical fundamentals of high power laser optics and adaptive optics, investigation of physical processes in a high volume self-controlled volume discharges, creation of high power/energy continuous wave, pulsed and high repetition rate pulse-periodic laser systems, high intensity laser radiation interaction with matter, high power/energy laser application for an effective protection of valuable objects and water surface cleaning from oil films, medical applications for UV lasers. His recent investigations have focused on laser diode array phase-locking, mechanisms of shock waves merging for a rockets launch by high repetition rate pulse-periodic laser light, super-long conductive channels based on dust plasma using ablation, high repetition rate optical pulsating discharge applications, space debris elimination by laser, and scalable mono-module disk laser and have been implemented both in Russia and abroad. He is the author of more than 1700 publications, Apollonov V.V. is a high profile scientist and well known around the globe for his more than 45 years of international scientific activity. He has participated in and organized over 60 international conferences, symposiums and workshops. Over the last 5 years, his scientific group has fulfilled more than 60 R&D contracts with customers from Japan, UK, Germany, France, China, Korea, Singapore and USA. He is the General Director of "Energomashtechnika" Ltd and is a member of the European and American Physical Society, SPIE, AIAA, American Society for QE and a member of the Specialized Scientific Council of Russia. He is a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science and Academy of Engineering Sciences, and laureate of the State Prize of USSR (1982) and of Russia (2002).

Introduction.-  Part I - High conductivity channels for a laser lightning-protection system.- Electric-discharge guiding by a continuous laser-induced spark.- Experimental simulation of a laser lightning-protection system.- Lightning and acology of atmosphere.- Part II - "Impulsar" as a background for high conductivity channels realization.- Interaction of an optical pulsed discharge with a gas.- Mechanism of shock waves merging in a laser jet engine.- Laser jet engine based on the resonance merging of shock waves.- Laser jet engine: the action of shock waves at low laser pulse repetition rate.- Simulation of high conductivity channels in space.- High conductivity channel expansion rate measurements.- "Impulsar": New application for high power high repetition rate pulse-periodic lasers.- Part III. Lasers and laser components for high conductivity channels implementation.- Laser source for wireless power transmission in space.- High power high repetition rate lasers.- High powerlasers and new applications.- High power disk lasers.- High power molecular lasers.- High power HF(DF) lasers.- High power/energy optics.- New materials for high power/energy lasers and new technologies.