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Au Säntis, le laser détourne la foudre

Un consortium constitué autour de physiciens de l’Université de Genève veut révolutionner le paratonnerre.

Scientists are trying to control lightning with a giant laser

CNN — “A team of researchers from the University of Geneva has hauled a huge laser atop a mountain to shoot it at the sky, and act as a high-tech lightning rod.

The team is led by Jean-Pierre Wolf, a Swiss physicist who’s been working with laser for more than 20 years and has been particularly fascinated with attempting to control the weather with it.

Laser creates very narrow, high-energy beams of light. Its applications range from cutting diamonds to surgery to reading barcodes, and Wolf believes he can add another to the list: protecting us from lightning.”

First experiment with the laser on Mont Saentis

2021-07-20 Admin Comments 1 Comment

First images of the laser LLR laser firing up on the Saentis Mountain.

First @laser_rod experiments have been successful: TRUMPF fires up laser lightning rod on Mount Säntis in Swiss Alps to discharge the lightning safely. https://t.co/bGSm5XnKB5 pic.twitter.com/l6L4CPi8eY
— TRUMPF (@TRUMPF_News) July 20, 2021

Transport of the Trumpf laser from Munich to Orsay

2020-12-17 Admin Comments 0 Comment

The 700mJ / 900fs / 1kHz laser on his way to Orsay, France, for the first experiments in the frame of the Laser Lightning Rod Project https://llr-fet.eu/
@Clemens Herkommer, from Trumpf scientific lasers did a great job building the system.

International Conference on Laser Filamentation COFIL 2018

2018-02-05 Admin

UNIGE team will organize the International Conference on Laser Filamentation, COFIL 2018, in Geneva on June 25- 29 2018. COFIL 2018 is the 7th of a very successful series of biennial conferences bringing together scientists working in the field of ultrashort and intense laser filamentation and its applications.