Latest results of 10 petawatt laser beamline for ELi nuclear physics infrastructure

Investigation of the quantum vacuum as an energy sink for subcritical and supercritical vaporization lasers

“…Vulcan The worldwide increase in (peak power) Petawatt lasers has been significant in recent years with more than five 10 PW lasers currently operating [20], [21], [22], and the research applications are significant [23]. Among these lasers are The Scalable High average-power Advanced Radiographic Capability (SHARC), the Big Aperture Thulium (BAT), and the L4-ATON which is designed to deliver 10 PW laser pulses in excess of 1.5 kJ with pulse times less than 150 fs and at a repetition rate up to 1 shot/minute [24].…”

Modeling and Analysis of High-Power Ti:sapphire Laser Amplifiers–A Review

“…The above-described numerical method is based on the Frantz-Nodvik energy gain equation of Equation (6). There also exist modified Frantz-Nodvik equations for more complex amplifier geometries such as a zig-zag slab [26] and multiple passes in a thin disk [27].…”

“…Leading research groups are focused on improving the repetition rate and pulse quality instead of successfully generating PW-class pulses [3][4][5][6][9][10][11]. Applications of ultra-high-power lasers require extraordinarily high quality, and it is necessary to increase the repetition rate to use them practically [8,12].…”

“…Owing to features such as excellent thermal conductivity, high mechanical durability, and wide amplification bandwidth, Ti:sapphire is widely used as a medium for high-power chirped pulse amplification (CPA) technology [1,2]. Some researchers from RAL, SIOM, PEARL, Apollon Project, and APRI, ELI, J-KAREN, and Vulcan have previously generated several petawatt (PW) laser pulses and are targeting 10 PW or more [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. A high-power laser can be used in applications such as laser-material interaction, particle acceleration, basic research about materials under extreme environments, and medical applications [12][13][14].…”

Generation and Parametric Amplification of Few‐Cycle Light Pulses at Relativistic Intensities

“…This applies also for the ambitious OPAL and XCEL projects that seek to bring OPCPA at moderate bandwidth to the kilojoule-level. , LWS-pro [107], Ecole Polytechnique [126], LWS20 [44], ELI-ALPS Sylos [165], CELIA [34], ELI-ALPS HF [167], Apollon 10 PW [40], OPAL [168], ATLAS [169], ELI-NP HPLS [39], SIOM-SULF [12,38], XCEL [170], Astra-Gemeni [171], BELLA [32], Vulcan [43,172], POLARIS [173], PENELOPE [174], Texas PW [31]. It should be noted that the plot does not provide any information about the repetition rate.…”