We are pleased to announce a one-day by-invitation-only meeting to be hosted on February 21, 2021 at Stanford University in Menlo Park, CA. A teleconference Zoom link will be provided for remote participants. This workshop will be held adjacent to the Accelerator on a Chip Collaboration Meeting Feb 22-23, and participants are welcomed to attend both events. The goal of the DLA Applications Workshop 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:
Joel England (SLAC)
Robert Byer, Olav Solgaard (Stanford)
