WP6 High-power Lasers

Technology development for future multi-PW laser facilities

WP6 High-power Lasers

WP Manager(s):
Catalin Miron (CEA-LIDYL)

Participants: CEA-LIDYL, Laserlab-Europe AISBL, ELI-ERIC

Objectives

Develop new optics and metrology technologies as key technological foundations for future multi-PW (peta watt) laser facilities
Use relativistic plasma mirrors as light condensers to approach Schwinger limit
Design a low number of shots spatio-temporal diagnostics device for ultrashort & ultraintense laser pulses at multi-PW laser facilities with low repetition rates
Train researchers and engineers in laser science, metrology and applications

Description of work

Task 6.1: Towards the Schwinger limit: intensity enhancement of high-power ultrashort laser beams using optically controlled curved plasma mirrors. (CEA-LIDYL)
Task 6.2: Advanced metrology of ultrashort laser beams. (CEA-LIDYL)
Task 6.3: Training and scientific exchange. (Laserlab-Europe AISBL, ELI-ERIC)

WP6 Results

Deliverable D6.1 "Training event on beam delivery and propagation at extreme intensities" (487KB)

Deliverable D6.2 "Prototype of pulse compressor based on self-phase modulation" (1.2 MB)

Deliverable D6.3 "Training event on pulse metrology" (677KB)

Deliverable D6.8 "Prototype for spatio-temporal metrology of high-power fs lasers submitted" (5.6 MB)

Deliverable D6.6 "Training event on pulse metrology 2" (1.0 MB)