The Extreme Light Infrastructure Project ELI and its Prototype APOLLON/ ILE: “The associated laser bottlenecks”

Chambaret, Jean Paul; Georges, Patrick; Chériaux, G.; Rey, G.; Blanc, C. Le; Audebert, P.; Douillet, D.; Paillard, J. L.; Cavillac, Patrick; Fournet, D.; Mathieu, François; Mourou, G.

doi:10.1364/fio.2009.fmi2

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“…Another 10 PW laser project is the ILE APOLLON to be realized at the Institut de Lumiére Extreme (ILE) in France (Chambaret et al, 2009). The laser pulses are expected to deliver an energy of 150 J in 15 fs at the last stage of amplification after the front end (energy of 100 mJ in less than 10 fs), with a repetition rate of one shot per minute.…”

Section: Next-generation 10 Pw Optical Laser Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental quantum systems

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The field of laser-matter interaction traditionally deals with the response of atoms, molecules and plasmas to an external light wave. However, the recent sustained technological progress is opening up the possibility of employing intense laser radiation to trigger or substantially influence physical processes beyond atomic-physics energy scales. Available optical laser intensities exceeding 10 22 W/cm 2 can push the fundamental lightelectron interaction to the extreme limit where radiation-reaction effects dominate the electron dynamics, can shed light on the structure of the quantum vacuum, and can trigger the creation of particles like electrons, muons and pions and their corresponding antiparticles. Also, novel sources of intense coherent high-energy photons and laserbased particle colliders can pave the way to nuclear quantum optics and may even allow for potential discovery of new particles beyond the Standard Model. These are the main topics of the present article, which is devoted to a review of recent investigations on high-energy processes within the realm of relativistic quantum dynamics, quantum electrodynamics, nuclear and particle physics, occurring in extremely intense laser fields.

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Section: Next-generation 10 Pw Optical Laser Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental quantum systems

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“…Unlike CPA amplifiers, due to angular constraints between pump and signal wave vectors, imposed by the unique phase-matching geometry, in OPCPA experimental setups usually a single pump laser beam can be used ( Figure 6). To amplify broadband chirped laser pulses, laser systems based on noncollinear OPCPA (NOPCPA) configuration, imposed by the conditions of UBB parametric amplification in nonlinear crystals, were developed [3,[25][26][27][28][29].…”

Section: Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

High-Power, High-Intensity Contrast Hybrid Femtosecond Laser Systems

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2018

High Power Laser Systems

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Hybrid femtosecond lasers combine the chirped pulse amplification (CPA) in laser media with optical parametric chirped pulse amplification (OPCPA) in nonlinear crystals. Gain bandwidths as broad as 150 nm can be obtained by noncollinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplification in nonlinear crystals. Therefore, stretched laser pulses compressible to sub-10-fs pulse duration can be amplified in crystals like beta-barium borate (BBO) and potassium dideuterium phosphate (DKDP). The ultra-broad phase-matching bandwidth near 800 nm wavelength of beta-barium borate crystals pumped by green nanosecond lasers and the gain bandwidth of Ti:sapphire laser crystals are practically overlapped. Optical parametric chirped pulse amplification in beta-barium borate crystals at low-energy level in the laser system Front-End (FE), combined with high-energy chirped pulse amplification in Ti:sapphire crystals, represents an advanced solution for petawatt-class femtosecond laser systems. A couple of worldwide developed hybrid amplification high-power femtosecond laser systems are presented. The configuration and output beam characteristics of the hybrid amplification petawatt laser of the Extreme Light Infrastructure: Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) facility are described.

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“…Typically, petawatt class lasers operate at 30 J, 30 fs, 500 J, 500 fs or 1 kJ, 1 ps [1,2,3]. Currently, however, a whole new class of 10 PW systems are funded and in the design phase [4]. The Texas Petawatt leverages a novel, hybrid approach of Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification (OPCPA) and mixed Nd:glass amplification [5].…”

Section: Laser System Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…These interactions produced deuterium ions energetic enough to initiate D-3 He nuclear fusion reactions as well as the DD fusion reactions inside the fusion plasma. By comparing the neutron yield from D(D, n) 3 He reactions with the proton yield from D( 3 He, p) 4 He reactions, we successfully measured the ion temperature of fusion plasmas at the time of the fusion reactions. The measurements of ion temperatures with fusion yields were consistent with independently measured ion temperatures from the ion time-of-flight measurements, and the measured temperature of deuterium ions was as high as 25 keV.…”

Section: Cluster Fusionmentioning

confidence: 99%