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Differently patterned airflows induced by 1-kHz femtosecond laser filaments in a cloud chamber

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Airflow induced by femtosecond laser (800 nm/1 kHz/25 fs) filamentation with different lengths was investigated in a laboratory cloud chamber. Various filament lengths were generated by adjusting laser energy and lens focal length. It was found that airflow patterns are closely related to filament intensity and length. Intense and long filaments are beneficial in updraft generation with large vortices above the filament, while intense and short filaments tend to promote the formation of well-contacted vortices below the filament. Differently patterned airflows induced elliptical snow piles with different masses. We simulated airflow in a cloud chamber numerically taking laser filaments as heat sources. The mechanisms of differently patterned airflow and snow formation induced by filaments were discussed.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2011CB808100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11425418, 61475167, 11404354, 11174305 and 61221064), Shanghai Science and Technology Talent Project (No. 12XD1405200), and the State Key Laboratory Program of the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. Tiejun Wang also acknowledges the support from 100 Talent Program of Chinese Academy of Science and Shanghai Pujiang Program. See Leang Chin acknowledges the support of the Canada Research Chairs, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, and the Quebec Fund for Nature and Technology Research.

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    Haiyi Sun, Hong Liang, Yonghong Liu, Jingjing Ju, Yingxia Wei, Cheng Wang, Tiejun Wang, Jiansheng Liu, Ruxin Li & Zhizhan Xu

  2. Center for Optics, Photonics and Laser, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada

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Sun, H., Liang, H., Liu, Y. et al. Differently patterned airflows induced by 1-kHz femtosecond laser filaments in a cloud chamber. Appl. Phys. B 121, 155–169 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-015-6213-y

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