5th workshop on Applications of Dielectric Laser Accelerators

Monday 27 Sept 2021, 09:00 → 21:00 Europe/Berlin

Orangerie (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Leon Brückner (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Laserphysik), Peter Hommelhoff (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU))

We are pleased to announce a one-day by-invitation-only meeting to be hosted on September 27, 2021 in Erlangen, Germany. The goal of this meeting is to explore applications for a future compact dielectric micro-structure based accelerator powered by ultrafast solid state lasers. This approach to particle acceleration, colloquially referred to as an "accelerator on a chip", has garnered increasing interest in recent years.

The Accelerator on a Chip International Program (ACHIP), a multi-institutional research program led by Stanford University and Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), and funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, has been formed to address the many scientific and engineering challenges of advancing this technology toward useful applications. As part of this program, we have established a working group to explore Applications for dielectric laser-driven accelerators.

Colleagues with expertise in industry, medicine, radiation generation, attosecond science, photonics, lasers, and other interrelated disciplines have been invited to help us explore the wide range of possible applications for a laser-driven accelerator and to identify the major challenges which must be addressed to advance this promising technology towards real-world applications.

Meeting Organizers:

Peter Hommelhoff (FAU Erlangen)

Leon Brückner (FAU Erlangen)

1 Welcome and Introduction

Speakers: Peter Hommelhoff (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)), Robert L. Byer Byer (Stanford University)

2 Nano-optics with femtosecond electron pulses in an Ultrafast Electron Microscope

Speaker: Arnaud Arbouet (CNRS)

2021-09-27-ACHIP-Meeting-Erlangen-Arbouet-rel-2.pdf

3 Shorter and brighter beams for MeV UED

Speaker: Renkai Li (Tsinghua University)

LRK-UED-ACHIP2021-share.pptx

10:40 Coffee break

4 An x-ray source for MRT and FLASH

Speaker: Stefan Bartzsch (Technical University Munich)

Presentation_27092021.pdf

5 Nanoscale coherent optical excitations in the scanning electron microscope

Speaker: Albert Polman (AMOLF)

12:30 Lunch break

6 From irradiation at ultrahigh dose rate to FLASH Radiotherapy: Experimental, conceptual and clinical challenges

Speaker: Marie-Catherine Vozenin (CHUV Lausanne)

ACHIPWSVozenin27sept2021.pdf

7 Imaging ultrafast structural dynamics in molecules with electron diffraction

Speaker: Martin Centurion (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

AChip meeting_uploadcenturion.pptx

15:20 Coffee break

15:40 Group picture

8 Snapshots of electron-light interactions in a Transmission Electron Microscope

Speaker: Fabrizio Carbone

ErlagenSept2021Carbone.pdf

9 General discussion

Speaker: All speakers and participants

18:00 Dinner - by invitation