The Extreme Light Infrastructure: Optics’ Next Horizon

Mourou, G.; Tajima, T.

doi:10.1364/opn.22.7.000047

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“…The neutron flux at core-collapse supernova is estimated to be 10 22 n/cm 2 /s [47]. We project that employing our method using a higher Z-number converter like tungsten at laser facilities coming online in the near future [50], will yield a neutron flux in excess of 10 20 n/cm 2 /s. This may enable for the first time the realization of r-process nucleosynthesis conditions in the laboratory.…”

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“…We examined the spin-dependent radiation via the classical and the QED model, which both gave consistent results. This distinctive spindependent effect dominates the SG deflection effect under the configuration considered in the current work and accessible for the next-generation 10-100 PW laser facilities [14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

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Spin-dependent radiative deflection in the quantum radiation-reaction regime

Geng

Shen

et al. 2020

New J. Phys.

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A new spin-dependent deflection mechanism is revealed by considering the spin-correlated radiationreaction force during laser-electron collision. We found that such deflection originates from the nonzero work done by the radiation-reaction force along the laser polarization direction in each halfperiod, which is larger/smaller for spin-anti-paralleled/spin-paralleled electrons. The resulted antisymmetric deflection is further accumulated when the spin-projection onto the laser magnetic field is reversed in adjacent half-periods. The discovered mechanism dominates over the Stern-Gerlach deflection for electrons of several hundreds of MeV and 10 PW-level laser peak power. The results provide a new perspective to study the strong-field QED physics in quantum radiation-reaction regime and an approach to leverage the study of radiation-dominated and strong-field QED physics via particle spins.

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“…intense laser beamline facilities (e.g., the Extreme Light Infrastructure ELI 9 ) are emerging world-wide with the goal of generating sub-fs X-ray pulses with unprecedented brightness to capture ultrafast chemical and physical phenomena with sub-atomic spatio-temporal resolution 10,11 . These facilities, however, cannot fulfill this long-standing scientific dream without a high-precision timing distribution system.…”

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Attosecond Precision Multi-km Laser-Microwave Network

Xin

Şafak

Peng

et al. 2016

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

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Synchronous laser-microwave networks delivering attosecond timing precision are highly desirable in many advanced applications, such as geodesy, very-long-baseline interferometry, high-precision navigation and multi-telescope arrays. In particular, rapidly expanding photon science facilities like X-ray free-electron lasers and intense laser beamlines require system-wide attosecond-level synchronization of dozens of optical and microwave signals up to kilometer distances. Once equipped with such precision, these facilities will initiate radically new science by shedding light on molecular and atomic processes happening on the attosecond timescale, such as intramolecular charge transfer, Auger processes and their impact on X-ray imaging.Here, we present for the first time a complete synchronous laser-microwave network with attosecond precision, which is achieved through new metrological devices and careful balancing of fiber nonlinearities and fundamental noise contributions. We demonstrate timing stabilization of a 4.7-km fiber network and remote optical-optical synchronization across a 3.5-km fiber link with an overall timing jitter of 580 and 680 attoseconds RMS, respectively, for over 40 hours. Ultimately we realize a complete laser-microwave network with 950-attosecond timing jitter for 18 hours. This work can enable next-generation attosecond photon-science facilities to revolutionize many research fields from structural biology to material science and chemistry to fundamental physics.

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The Extreme Light Infrastructure: Optics’ Next Horizon

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Spin-dependent radiative deflection in the quantum radiation-reaction regime

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