Ultra-intense Laser Interactions Science

24 May 2009, 19:00 → 29 May 2009, 18:00 Europe/Rome

INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati

Antonio Giulietti (CNR), Carmela Strangio (ENEA), Massimo Ferrario (INFN-LNF)

We are pleased to announce the second edition of the Ultra-Intense Laser Interaction Science conference “ULIS2009@Frascati” to be held at the National Laboratories of INFN in Frascati (LNF-INFN) next May 2009, from 24th to 29th. The ULIS conference series was launched by Ph. Martin, S. Jacquemot and E. Mevel with ULIS2007 in Bordeaux with the intention of offering to researchers involved in experimental, numerical or theoretical studies on Strong Field or Ultra-High Intensity science (UHI) and Inertial Fusion for Energy (IFE) an outstanding opportunity to gather and compare their expertise and then to federate these communities. The success of ULIS 2007 exceeded the most optimistic expectations. ULIS 2009 will keep the same objectives while further opening the participation to a multidisciplinary scientific community. Topics to be addressed will then include: - New Laser Sources: High Energy – High Power - Fundamental Processes at Ultra-High Intensity - Relativistic Optics in Plasmas - Advanced IFE Schemes including Fast Ignition - Laser-driven Particle Accelerators and their potential uses - Secondary Sources, Applications and Radioprotection Issues - Attosecond science “ULIS2009@Frascati” will be hosted by LNF-INFN labs, where a frontier laboratory is being set-up with the installation of the 300 TW - 20 fs FLAME laser operating in close connection with the 150 MeV Linac of the SPARC Free Electron Laser. Across the road from INFN there is the ENEA Research Centre with its infrastructures devoted to Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion, including the ABC laser laboratory.

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Monday, 25 May

08:00 Registration

Opening Ceremony

1 Magistral Lecture: Laser Acceleration and its Scope and Impact: 1979-2009

Speaker: Toshiki Tajima (Ludwig Maximilian University)

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Session 1 - New Laser Sources: High Energy-High Power

2 The 10 PW OPCPA Vulcan Facility

Speaker: Cristina Hernandez-Gomez (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

3 Recent developments on a single beamline 10PW laser system ILE/APOLLON and associated bottlenecks investigation for the future ELI Ewawatt laser

We will describe in detail the laser design concerning the construction of a single beamline Ultra Intense Laser delivering 10PW pulses (150J /15 fs) at 1 shot par minute repetition rate. This laser funded by the French program ILE/APOLLON is presently under construction and will be fully operational in 2013. It could be considered as a prototype beam for the ELI Multibeam laser expected to deliver 200PW (3KJ /15fs). To reach such a level of performances, several bottlenecks have been oinvestigated and overcome. We will discuss the work done on new large size Titanium Sapphire crystals, on high performance non linear SHG crystals, on new compressor gratings concepts and on large pump lasers. Today we consider that the ILE bottlenecks are overcome. We will present what could be the future ELI Laser architecture and the remaining technological bottlenecks which still need to be overcome, and coherent beams combining, high damage threshold broadband reflective optics, and large deformable mirrors.

Speaker: Jean Paul Chambaret (LOA ENSTA)

4 PLASMONX: project status and first experiments

Speaker: Danilo Giulietti (Univ. Pisa & INFN)

11:00 Coffee Break

5 High intensity, high beam quality laser pulses with a double CPA, OPCPA/Ti:sapphire laser system for studying relativistic light-matter interactions

Speaker: Hiromitsu Kiriyama (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

6 The New Fast Ignitor Oriented Target Area in the Vulcan Laser at the CLF

Speaker: Marco Galimberti (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

7 Diode-pumped Yb3+:YLF and Yb3+:CaF2 laser performance

Speaker: Angela Pirri (IFAC-CNR Sesto Fiorentino (Fi))

8 Efficient Nuclear Fusion Induced by Intense Coulomb Explosion of CD4 Clusters Subjected to Intense Femtosecond Laser Field

Speaker: Liu Jiansheng (State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China)

13:00 Registration

13:30 Lunch

Session 2 - Fundamental Processes at Ultra-High Intensity

9 Interaction of High Contrast, 25fs, 100-TW-Class Laser With Solid Targets

Speaker: Pascal Monot (CEA-Saclay)

10 Review of strong-field interaction activities at c-FAST

Speaker: Karol Janulewicz (Advanced Photonics Research Institute at Gwangju Inst. of Science and Technology)

11 Anharmonic resonance in intense laser-matter interaction and tailoring of the fast electron spectrum

Speaker: Peter Mulser (TQE: Theoretical Quantum Electronics, Tech. Univ. Darmstadt)

12 Investigations of electron beam transport in dense plasma

Speaker: Paul McKenna (Univ. of Strathclyde)

16:30 Coffee Break

13 Rescaling the energy of filamentation

Speaker: Íñigo Sola (Univ. Salamanca)

14 Interaction of Ultraintense Laser Fields with Atomic Electron and Nucleus

Speaker: Farhad Faisal (Univ. Bielefeld)

Panel 1 - Disc.

15 Title not available (L. GIZZI)

19:30 Welcome Cocktail (Hotel Villa Mercede)

Tuesday, 26 May

08:00 Registration

Panel 2 - Disc.

16 Title not available (M. DUNNE)

10:20 Coffee Break

10:40 Visit to INFN-LNF

13:30 Lunch

Session 3 - Foundamental Processest at Ultra-High Intensity & Relativistic Optics in Plasmas

17 PENELOPE: A general-purpose Monte Carlo code for the simulation of coupled electron-photon transport

Speaker: Francesc Salvat (Univ. Barcelona)

18 Effects of electron self-force on super-high intensity laser-plasma interaction

Speaker: Natalia Naumova (LOA, ENSTA - Ecole Polytechnique)

19 Study of target heating induced by fast electrons in mass limited targets

Speaker: Alessio Morace (Univ. Milano Bicocca)

20 Toward a new nanoLIFT transfer process

Speaker: Candice Mezel (CELIA (Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications))

16:30 Coffee Break

21 High repetition electron beam produced with a 1mJ Ti:Sapph laser

Speaker: Carmen Fonseca Cuenca (Grupo de Física Nuclear Salamanca University)

22 Measurements of Self-Generated Magnetic Fields Influence on Electron Heat Conduction in Dense Plasmas

Speaker: Livia Lancia (LULI Ecole Polytechnique & Dip.to Energetica Sapienza)

23 Laser Acceleration for Stable Electron Beams at JAEA-APRC

Speaker: Hideyuki Kotaki (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

24 Controlling stable laser-accelerated electron beams

Speaker: Antonia Popp (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics)

Poster Session I

25 Energetic ions from next generation ultraintense ultrashort lasers: scaling laws for TNSA

Speaker: Matteo Passoni (Dpt. di Energia, Politecnico di Milano, and Sez. di Milano INFN, Milan, Italy)

26 Above-millijoule continuum generation using polarisation dependent filamentation in atoms and molecules

Speaker: Benjamín Alonso (Área de Óptica. Departamento de Física Aplicada.Universidad de Salamanca.)

27 Ion Acceleration by Short High Intensity Laser Pulse

Speaker: Alexander Andreev (Vavilov State Optical Institute)

28 On the Possibility of Laser Generating Quasi-Monochromatic Ion Bunches via Ultrathin Targets Nano-Structuring

Speaker: Sergio Betti (CNR)

29 Properties of the X-Ray Radiation Emitted by Energetic Electrons from Laser-Plasma Interaction in the Relativistic Regime

Speaker: Arnaud Andre (CEA)

30 Observation of laser induced Optogalvanic-like effect in liquid: a case of optical nutation of the dipole vectors

Speaker: RAJIB BORDOLOI (TINSUKIA COLLEGE (Dibrugarh University, Assam, India))

31 Development of laser-based x-ray sources using non-trivial plasma medium or additional laser pulses

Speaker: Sebastien CORDE (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée)

32 High-precision positioning of a rotating solid target for high-harmonic generation at kHz repetition rate

Speaker: antonin borot (Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée)

33 Dense plasmas characterised by spectrally and temporally resolved reflectivity measurements in the XUV domain

Speaker: sandrine dobosz dufrenoy (DSM-IRAMIS-SPAM ,CEA-Saclay)

34 A Pilot PLASMON-X experiment on electron acceleration with self-injection

Speaker: Carlo Alberto Cecchetti (CNR)

35 HiPER diagnostics development: a novel spectrally resolved X-ray imaging technique for laser-plasmas

Speaker: Leonida Antonio Gizzi (IPCF-CNR & INFN-Pisa)

36 Laser-IORT: a laser-driven source of relativistic electrons suitable for Intra-Operative Radiation Therapy of tumors

Speaker: Andrea Gamucci (IPCF-CNR, Pisa, Italy and INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Italy)

37 Secondary radiation from multi-GeV protons generated in laser-solid interactions in ELI

Speaker: Luis Cardoso (GoLP/IPFN - Instituto Superior Técnico)

38 Laser-driven electron and Bremsstrahlung x-ray sources at petawatt intensity

Speaker: Antoine Compant La Fontaine (CEA/DAM Ile-de-France)

39 High-Energy Protons from closely stacked, ultra-thin foils

Speaker: Thomas Kluge (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V.)

40 The effect of laser wavelength on laser-driven

Speaker: Slawomir Jablonski (Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Poland)

41 Fast electron transport studies through K-alpha imaging and spectroscopy in ultra-high intensity laser-solid interactions

Speaker: Petra Koester (IPCF-CNR & INFN-Pisa)

42 Diode-pumped chirped pulse amplification to the TW level using Yb:CaF2

Speaker: Mathias Siebold (Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics)

43 Influence of Ambient Plasmas to the Field Dynamics of Laser Driven Mass-Limited Targets

Speaker: Matthias Schnuerer (Max-Born-Institut)

44 Ramsey-Type Spectroscopy in the XUV spectral region

Speaker: Angela Pirri (IFAC-CNR, LENS)

45 Transition to chaotic regime of surface oscillations in super-intense laser interaction with sharp overdense plasma

Speaker: Artem Korzhimanov (Institute of Applied Physics RAS)

46 Characterization of laser induced proton beams with radiochromic films: comparison between optical densitometry and nuclear activation analyses.

Speaker: Cyril Plaisir (CENBG)

47 On dynamics of flat-top electromagnetic solitons in a cold relativistic electron-ion plasma

Speaker: Vikrant Saxena (Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India-382428)

48 Strongly Enhanced Laser Absorption and Electron Acceleration via Resonant Excitation of Surface Plasma Waves

Speaker: Michele Raynaud (CEACEA/DSM/IRAMIS/LSI, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France)

49 Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Gold in the Presence of Laser Excited Surface Plasma Waves

Speaker: Michele Raynaud (CEA/DSM/IRAMIS/LSI, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France)

50 The Gemini Laser Facility

Speaker: Bryn Parry (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

51 On the fabrication of large arrays of 3-µm diameter channels in thick substrates for advanced X-ray imaging.

Speaker: Tadzio Levato (a,b,c,d)

52 Controlling high-order harmonic cut-off extension using two delayed pulses of the same colour

Speakers: Camilo Ruiz (CLPU and Optics Group Salamanca University), Jose Antonio Pérez-Hernández (Optics Group Salamanca University)

53 Control of the polarization of attosecond pulses using a two-color field

Speaker: Camilo Ruiz Méndez (CLPU and Optics Group Salamanca University)

54 BLISS@CNR-Pisa: a flexible laser for small scale test experiments on fusion oriented physics

Speaker: Luca Labate (Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory - IPCF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)

55 Proton Tomography: Tomographic reconstruction of high contrast laser driven proton source

Speaker: Sargis Ter-Avetisyan (The Queen's University of Belfast)

56 Double acceleration of ions and application in biomaterials

Speaker: Vincenzo Nassisi (Dpt. of Physics, Univ. of Salento, Laboratorio di Elettronica Applicata e Strumentazione, LEAS I.N.F.N. sect. of Lecce, Lecce, Italy)

Wednesday, 27 May

Session 4 - Advanced IFE Schemes including Fast Ignition

57 Present status and future prospect of Fast Ignition Realization Experiment (LFEX) Project at ILE, Osaka

Speaker: Hiroaki Nishimura (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka Univ.)

58 Towards inertial fusion demonstration with less than 500 kJ lasers

Speaker: Stefano Atzeni (Univ. Roma "La Sapienza" and CNISM)

59 Experimental studies of fast ignition physics

Speaker: Jonathan Davies (GoLP, Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear, Instituto Superior Técnico)

60 Experimental investigation of fast electron propagation in lasercompressed cylindrical targets

Speaker: Petra Koester (IPCF-CNR & INFN-Pisa, Italy)

61 Ion acceleration in sub-micron mass limited targets heated by ultra- intense and ultrahigh contrast laser pulses.

Speaker: Bhuvanesh Ramakrishna (Queen's Univ.)

10:30 Coffee Break

62 Single Molecule Laser Induced Nuclear Fusion, Linf, in Superintense Laser Fields

Speaker: Andre D. Bandrauk (Univ. Sherbrooke)

63 Laser generated Ion Beam Transport and Applications using PHELIX and Vulcan

Speaker: Markus Roth (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

64 Proton Radiography of a cylindrical Laser-Driven Implosions

Speaker: Rashida Jafer (Univ. Milano Bicocca)

12:00 Buffet Lunch

12:30 Excursion to Villa Adriana (Tivoli)

19:15 Scientific Commettee Meeting

Thursday, 28 May

Session 5 - Secondary Sources, Applications and Radioprotection Issues

65 The SPARC and SPARX project

New opportunities will be opened with the SPARX-Free electron laser (SPARX-FEL) source being currently in preparation in the framework of a collaboration among the major Italian research institutes (INFN;CNR,ENEA) and the University of Roma "Tor Vergata", founded by the ministry of research and the Regione Lazio and performed in strong partnership with many national and foreign universities. The project, a natural extension of the ongoing activities of the SPARC collaboration, is aiming at the realization of a new coherent light source covering the range of 0.6-40 nm with unprecedented features in terms of brilliance, coherence, pulse duration and intensity.

Speaker: Luigi Palumbo (Univ. Roma La Sapienza & INFN-LNF)

66 All-Optical Compton Scattering Gamma-ray Source for Nuclear Material Evaluation

Speaker: Mitsuru Uesaka (University of Tokyo)

67 The FLAME Shielding design

Speaker: Adolfo Esposito (INFN - LNF)

68 High intensity laser-driven proton and electromagnetic wave sources from a thin-foil target

Speaker: Akito Sagisaka (Advanced Photon Research Center & Photo-Medical Research Center, JAEA)

69 Phase-contrast imaging of nanostructures with incoherent femtosecond laser driven soft X-ray source

Speaker: Sergei Gasilov (Joint Institute for High Temperatures RAS)

70 Temporal and uxv spectral characterization of the betatron source.

Speaker: Romuald Fitour (LOA)

11:00 Coffee Break

71 High harmonic sources with extended cut-off

Speaker: Christian Spielmann (Friedrich Schiller Univ. Jena)

72 Laser Plasma Source for X-Ray imaging

Speaker: Maria Richetta (Univ. Roma “Tor Vergata”)

12:20 Poster Session II & Lunch

Session 6 - Attosecond Science

73 Intense attosecond pulses

Speaker: Dimitrios Charalambidis (FORTH-IESL)

74 Recent Progress on XUV and Attosecond Science at RIKEN

Speaker: Katsumi Midorikawa (RIKEN)

75 Attosecond pulse generation in laser interaction with solid targets

Speaker: George Tsakiris (Max-Planck-Institut)

76 Coherent XUV generation by an IR parametric source: a step towards attosecond pulses at 100 eV

Speaker: Salvatore Stagira (National Lab. for Ultrafast and Ultraintense Optical Science, CNR-INFM, Politecnico di Milano)

17:00 Coffee Break

Panel 3 - Disc.

77 Title not available (K. YAMANOUCHI)

20:30 Social Dinner (Villa Tuscolana)

Friday, 29 May

Session 7 - Laser driven Particle Accelerators and their potential Issues

78 On the control of electron beam parameters with laser plasma accelerators

Speaker: Victor Malka (LOA)

79 Dynamics of Radiation Pressure Acceleration

Speaker: Andrea Macchi (CNR/INFM/polyLAB, Pisa)

80 All-optical Femtosecond Bunch Length Measurement of Laser-accelerated Electron Beams

Speaker: Alexander Debus (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V.)

81 Comparison of laser-accelerated hot electron characteristics obtained using different diagnostics and confrontation to simulations

Speaker: Patrizio Antici (Institut Lumiere Extreme)

82 High energy electron beam generation in the regime of relativistic self-induced transparency

Speaker: Vadim Eremin (Institute of Applied Physics RAS)

11:00 Coffee Break

83 Recent results on acceleration mechanisms and beam optimization of laser-driven proton beams

Beam optimization of laser-accelerated protons is a crucial point for the development of applications in various areas. Several directions need to be pursued, namely (i) ptimization of the high-energy end of the spectrum e.g. for dense lasma radiography, (ii) optimization of the low-energy end of the spectrum e.g. for isochoric heating of matter, (iii) enhancement of laser-to-protons conversion efficiency and reduction of divergence e.g. for fast ignition. We will present recent experimental results and simulations on these topics. New diagnostic capabilities open the way to precise time and space-resolved measurement of laseracceleration of protons [1]. We will show that high-energy protons in the TNSA regime could be enhanced using low-density plasmas [2] or reduced mass solid targets [3]. The laser-toprotons conversion efficiency is equally sensitive to laser and target parameters and can be increased using ultra-thin targets [4] or reduced mass solid targets [3]. Conversely, lowenergy protons are relatively independent of laser and target conditions. In addition, we will present some results in exploring radiation-pressure acceleration of ions using circularly polarized laser pulses. [1] P. Antici, J. Fuchs et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 105004 (2008). [2] P. Antici,, J. Fuchs, et al., New J. of Phys. 11, 023038 (2009). [3] S. Buffechoux et al., “Enhanced laser acceleration of protons from reduced mass targets”, submitted (2009). [4] P. Antici, J. Fuchs et al., IEEE Trans. On Plasma Sci. 36, 1817 - 1820 (2008).

Speaker: Julien Fuchs

84 Efficient ultra-fast laser driven ion acceleration with transparent, dense and ultra-thin foils

Speaker: Sven Steinke (Max-Born Institute, Berlin)

85 GeV-level electron beam accelerated by OPCPA laser

Speaker: Efim Khazanov (Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Science)

86 Simulation of Particle Acceleration in the Plasmonx Experiment

Speaker: Carlo Benedetti (Univ. Bologna & INFN-Bologna)

13:10 Concluding Remarks

13:30 Lunch