XFEL beamline design for vacuum birefringence experiment

Further Development of the Short‐Pulse Petawatt Laser: Trends, Technologies, and Bottlenecks

“…It is worth nothing that some groups, e.g., Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) and Laboratory for Laser Energetics Rochester University, have already started or planned to construct ≈100 PW lasers based on the DKDP kilojoule OPCPA. [17][18][19] The above result is based on the pure DKDP at 100% of deuteration. The deuteration level of DKDP can affect spectral absorptions and refractive indexes, and reducing the deuteration level can increase the gain bandwidth.…”

“…Since the first PW laser of Nova in 1996, [ 10 ] tens of PW lasers have been accomplished in North America, East Asia, and Europe. [ 11–19,21–34 ] Figure shows the distributions of some PW lasers in the figure of duration–energy–peak power, and their details are given in Table 1 . Complete details of the worldwide PW lasers can also be found in two previous facility review articles by Danson et al.…”

“…Since the first PW laser of Nova in 1996, [10] tens of PW lasers have been accomplished in North America, East Asia, and Europe. [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] Figure 2 shows the distributions of some PW lasers in the figure of duration-energy-peak power, and their details are given in Table 1. Complete details of the worldwide PW lasers can also be found in two previous facility review articles by Danson et al [15,16] The neodymium-doped glass (Nd:glass) laser is the first type PW laser, which could support a very large beam aperture (metersized now) and accordingly a very strong pulse energy (kilojoules now).…”

“…Apollon [16] France 150 15 10 Construction CETAL [16] Romania 25 25 1 Operation RRCAT [16] India 25 25 1 Construction OPCPA PW lasers CAEP-PW [30] China 91.1 18.6 4.9 Operation SG-II-5 PW [31] China 37 21 1.76 Operation SEL-100 PW [18] China 1500 15 100 Construction PEARL [16] Russia 18 55-67 (10) a) 0.25-0.3 (1.5) a) Operation a) Result of thin-plate postcompression.…”

Advances in QED with intense background fields

“…This prediction persists for the collision of manifestly inhomogeneous laser pulses. Such vacuum birefringence measurements, employing probe photon energies of ω = O(10)keV, are envisioned for the near future, e.g., at the Helmholtz International Beamline for Intense Fields (HIBEF) at the European XFEL [76], SACLA in Japan [564], and the station of extreme light (SEL) at the Shanghai Coherent Light Facility in China [565]. First steps towards taking into account experimentally realistic constraints and performing detailed parameter scans to optimise the vacuum birefringence signal for HIBEF parameters were taken in [76,566].…”