Features of application of image converter cameras for research on lightning and discharges in long air gaps

Vitaly B. Lebedev; Grigory G. Feldman; Boris N. Gorin; Yuri V. Shcherbacov; Vladimir S. Syssoev; Vladimir A. Rakov

doi:10.1117/12.597448

17 March 2005 Features of application of image converter cameras for research on lightning and discharges in long air gaps

Vitaly B. Lebedev, Grigory G. Feldman, Boris N. Gorin, Yuri V. Shcherbacov, Vladimir S. Syssoev, Vladimir A. Rakov

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Proceedings Volume 5580, 26th International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.597448
Event: 26th International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics, 2004, Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Abstract

The present report generalizes materials of publication /1-3/. In doing so /1/ and /3/ were presented at appropriate symposiums only as poster reports and were not widely discussed. Creation of reliable physical and engineering models of sequence of leader-return stroke of lightning (L-RS) and an attachment process is hampered by lack of actual information on the optical picture of low-luminous streamer structures of lightning. Cameras based on an image converter tubes (ICT) /4/ serve as an alternative of traditional optical-mechanical means for recording a lightning image. Such cameras allowed to obtain new reults when investigating streamer processes of a long spark what made it possible to formulate a set of hypothesizes relating to a leader process of lightning /5-7/. Here there are given the characteristics of the image converter instrumentation complex adapted to the work with lightning and a long spark and there are presented the results of its tests in the All-Russian Electro-technical Institute (VEI) named after V.I. Lenin when recording a long spark on the open high-voltage stand in Istra (near Moscow).

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Vitaly B. Lebedev, Grigory G. Feldman, Boris N. Gorin, Yuri V. Shcherbacov, Vladimir S. Syssoev, and Vladimir A. Rakov "Features of application of image converter cameras for research on lightning and discharges in long air gaps", Proc. SPIE 5580, 26th International Congress on High-Speed Photography and Photonics, (17 March 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.597448

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