Conveners
PS3: Laser technology
- Mariastefania De Vido (STFC Central Laser Facility)
- Manuel Kirchen
PS3: Laser technology
- Mariastefania De Vido (STFC Central Laser Facility)
- Manuel Kirchen
In this paper, we present the state of the art laser technologies suitable for laser plasma accelerators as well as the roadmap to achieve average power scaling to the level required for future LPA-based FEL, in particular the flagship project of EuPRAXIA laser-driven machine.
We will present performance of operational performance of already operating 10 TW – 100 Hz laser systems using...
KALDERA is a novel TW-class Ti:Sapphie laser currently under development at DESY with the goal to drive a next-generation of high repetition-rate, high average-power laser-plasma accelerators. We report on the current development status of KALDERA and present commissioning results of the first 700 mJ / 100 Hz amplifier stage and its high power broadband multilayer-dielectric grating compressor...
Laser-plasma acceleration (LPA) is a promising technology for future compact accelerators. However, the low repetition rate (typically few Hz) of today’s high-power laser systems prevents reaching the average power required by applications and hinders the implementation of fast feedback systems to mitigate beam instabilities. To this end, DESY has established a dedicated research program on...
Increasing the repetition rate of >100 MeV laser plasma accelerators to the kilohertz range is critical for many real-world applications. However, this requires drive lasers with pulse durations of tens of femtoseconds, pulse energies of hundreds of millijoules, and thus average power in the kilowatt range. Achieving this is challenging, especially with the Ti:sapphire technology widely used...
Laser-driven plasma-based particle acceleration has achieved impressive results over the last decades, demonstrating a large variety of experimental schemes. These studies were possible even though the available instrumentation mostly had prototype-like character, often introducing considerable jitter and drift in the experimental results. Currently, the interest in improving the...
A new target area is set up at the Helmholtz Institute Jena. One central aspect are combined experiments with the laser systems JETi200 and POLARIS. Additionally, a new dedicated probe laser system, JETi ONE, was installed giving the opportunity to investigate laser-plasma interactions with few-cycle laser pulse ranging from the visible to the mid infrared spectrum. To synchronize these three...
Brookhaven’s Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) offers users access to a broad array of advanced research capabilities, including an RF photocathode electron LINAC, a femtosecond Ti:Sapphire laser, and a high-peak-power long-wave infrared (LWIR) laser. These systems can be synchronized for integrated experiments or operated independently, supporting R&D in next-generation accelerator and laser...
The ARCTURUS laser laboratory at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) is undergoing a renewed phase of development, with a sharpened focus on plasma-based electron acceleration. At the heart of the facility is the ARCTURUS system, a 150 TW, multi-pulse laser capable of delivering synchronised high-power and probe pulses into a radiation-shielded experimental area. This infrastructure...
