Conveners
WG7 - Laser technology for advanced accelerators
- patrick audebert (LULI)
- Jens Limpert Limpert (FSU Jena)
WG7 - Laser technology for advanced accelerators
- patrick audebert (LULI)
- Jens Limpert Limpert (FSU Jena)
Dr
Catalin MIRON
(ELI-DC AISBL)
16/09/2015, 16:00
WG7 - Laser technology for advanced accelerators
talk
The Extreme Light Infrastructure ELI (www.eli-laser.eu) will be the world’s first international user facility for laser-based research and applications. In 2015, while nearing completion of its construction, ELI was selected as one of the “ESFRI Landmarks” for its role as reference project of scientific excellence and of competitiveness of the European Research Area.
ELI is dedicated to...
Danilo Giulietti
(PI), Dr
Marco Galimberti
(Science and Technology Facilities Council), Mr
Mario Galletti
(Università di Pisa)
16/09/2015, 16:30
WG7 - Laser technology for advanced accelerators
talk
One of the most promising techniques about characterization of the ultra-short high power laser pulses is GRENOUILLE, that simplifies the set up compared to other popular full intensity-phase measurement technique. This new technique has many advantages: it is considerably more sensitive, extremely simple to set up and align. It provides us a trace that yields the full pulse intensity and...
Dr
Laura Corner
(JAI, Oxford University)
16/09/2015, 16:50
WG7 - Laser technology for advanced accelerators
talk
We review recent experimental work carried out at Oxford University on laser technology for conventional and plasma wakefield accelerators. We demonstrate using a low power, inexpensive continuous wave laser to stabilise a double unbalanced Michelson interferometer. When a pulsed laser is injected into the interferometers a train of up to 4 pulses with freely controlled variable spacing and...
Dr
Paul Andreas Walker
(UHH/CFEL)
16/09/2015, 17:10
WG7 - Laser technology for advanced accelerators
talk
Within the LAOLA collaboration the university of Hamburg and DESY work closely together within the field of Laser Wakefield Acceleration. We report on a new laser beamline which will feed two laser plasma target areas, LUX and REGAE. The physics explored at LUX include 5 Hz, continuous gas flow operation, adiabatic matching, a pump probe set-up, and undulatory radiation. Because LUX is...
Dr
Igor Pogorelsky
(BNL)
16/09/2015, 18:00
talk
Strong-field research will benefit from ultrafast(3-10 cycles), relativistically intense (a0>>1), long wavelength (>>1um) lasers. The enhanced plasma response mainly manifested through a quadratic wavelength scaling of the ponderomotive energy and the critical density is deemed especially favorable for advanced laser plasma accelerators.
A next-generation mid-IR laser project is under...
Spencer Jolly
(Center for Free-Electron Laser Science & Department of Physics, Hamburg University)
16/09/2015, 18:20
WG7 - Laser technology for advanced accelerators
talk
Within the LAOLA Collaboration, the University of Hamburg and DESY work closely together to combine university research in the field of laser-plasma acceleration with the expertise of a large and well-established accelerator facility. We present in this talk a summary of hardware, software, and operation based changes to the 200 TW ANGUS laser system to increase ease of operation and...
Dr
Diego Guenot
(Laboratoire d'Optique Applique)
16/09/2015, 18:40
WG7 - Laser technology for advanced accelerators
talk
The generation of electron sources in the MeV range and few fs durations requires the development of sub 10fs high power laser pulses [1]. However, standard Ti :sapphire lasers cannot provide pulses of duration below 20fs. In order to decrease the duration of these pulses, several schemes have been proposed, most of them based either on gas ionization in a fiber, or on compression in nonlinear...
Fabio Villa
(LNF)
16/09/2015, 19:00
WG7 - Laser technology for advanced accelerators
talk
In many high gradient accelerator schemes, i.e. with plasma or dielectric wakefield induced by particles, many electron pulses are required to drive the acceleration of one of them. Those electron bunches, that generally should have very short duration and low emittance, can be generated in photoinjectors driven by a train of laser pulses coming inside the same RF bucket. We present the system...
