Laser Technology Development at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics

by Dr Christophe Dorrer (Laboratory for Laser Energetics University of Rochester)

Tuesday 29 Mar 2022, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

25b.01.109 (DESY Hamburg)

The Laboratory for Laser Energetics was established at the University of Rochester in 1970 as a center for the investigation of the interaction of intense radiation with matter. It currently operates two large-scale laser facilities for users, the Omega laser (sixty nanosecond beams at 351 nm) and the Omega?EP laser (four multi-kilojoule Nd:glass beamlines, with front ends supporting either nanosecond operation or chirped pulse amplification). The design and development of two new laser facilities, MTW-OPAL (sub-20-fs 7.5-J pulses based on broadband optical parametric chirped pulse amplification at 920 nm) and FLUX (broadband spectrally incoherent pulses at 351 nm) will be presented. Novel technologies and diagnostics supporting these developments will be described.