Extreme Light Going Beyond The Horizon

And Socio-Economic Outlook

Gérard Mourou

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Ives Medal IZEST Ecole Polyetechnique

“I realized there would be many applications for the laser, but it never occurred to me that we'd get such power from it!” - Charles Townes

“The discovery of this particle is potentially the beginning of another road, which is to explore what lies beyond the Standard Model” - Peter Higgs

eV TeV

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1PW, is 1000 times the world grid power (10-15 secondes)

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The Pressure of

Light?

I = 1023 w/cm2

10 millions Eiffel Towers on

the tip of your finger!

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One of the most exciting field of laser science today More than100, 1TW Ultrahigh Intensity facility in the

World

Extreme Light Infrastructure - ELI

The Largest Civilian Laser Infrastructure Initiated and Coordinated(PP) by, G. Mourou (EP)

ELI (Delivery Consortium) W. Sandners

Czech Republic

Hungary

Romania

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They set the field’s horizon.

Socio Economic Impact (Preliminary Study from LLNL)

Taking Stock, Going Beyond the Horizon.

We need to marshal the World-Top’s laboratories and experts to go beyond the Horizon in:

1. Peak power from PW to EW

2. Pulse duration as to zs

3. Acceleration Gradients from GeV/cm toTeV/cm

4. Improwing average poer from kW to MW

5. New scientific and societal applications

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Vacuum Polarization Short Cut

Extreme Light Road Map and Ultra high Intensity Short Cut

MeV

eV

MeV

GeV

TeV

J

MJ

kJ

mJ

Ep=mpc

2

Ee=m0c

2

XCELS

l3

216 23.5 10 W/cm

8

BB

cEI

Apollon

1EW 1Joule in 1 attosec Or 1000J 1 fs

P=E/T

Extreme Light is produced by Petawatt Laser

1 PW laser = 106 Nuclear Power Plants

Petawatt Laser Provides

A 10-1000J Uniform wave front in

Phase and Amplitude

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Thin Film Pulse Compression

Low Hanging Fruits

Applications of Single Cycle to Proton Generation vs a0

16cycles

4cycles

1cycles

Relativistic Compression

in the X-ray, g-ray regime

Scalable Isolated Attosecond Pulses

N. M. Naumova, J. A. Nees, I. V. Sokolov, B. Hou, and G. A. Mourou,

Relativistic generation of isolated attosecond pulses in a l3 focal volume, Phys. Rev. Lett.

92, 063902-1 (2004).

Relativistic Compression

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N. M. Naumova, J. A. Nees, I. V. Sokolov, B. Hou, and G. A. Mourou, Relativistic generation of isolated attosecond pulses in a l3 focal volume, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 063902-1 (2004).

Relativistic Compression

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Relativistic Compression

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For I=1023 w/cm2 a0 =103 Pulse = 1Zs In the X-ray and Gamma-Ray regime

Zeptosecond pulses, (N. Naumova, I. Sokolov, G. Mourou) (Preliminary Result)

Giant Wake Field Acceleration

in Solid

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Plasma Acceleration Energy Gain G a n 1/2 eV/cm

1eV light nc ~ 1021cm-3 n gas = 1018 cm-3 , G~ 10 9, GeV/cm

Drive pulse X-Ray, 600zs + as electron pulse

nsolid = 1024cm3

Channeling lower the emittance Valid for electron, muons, heavy ions

Femtosecond Visible Light Driver in Gas Tajima et Dawson 1979

Atto-zepto, X-ray Driver, Solid, Tajima et Cavenago 1987

G~ 1012 eV/cm, TeVcm

Microwave Cav. G~ 10 6, MeV/cm

Outlook for Laser-Particle acceleration TeV

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Laser wakefield Visible 100m

Laser wakefield X-ray, 1cm

Microwave cavity

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Scientific Applications

.Laser Astrophysics and Cosmology

.Polarization of Vacuum,

.Materialization of Light

.Beyond the Standard Model

.Higgs Factory

.Dark Matter

Cosmic Ray Spectrum

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Extreme Light Societal Applications

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Jean-Christophe Chanteloup

CAN Coherent Amplification Network

(X-CAN Prototype 61 fibers)

G. Mourou, W. Brocklesby, J. Limpert, T. Tajima, Nature Photonics April 2013 « The future of Acceletaor is Fiber »

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‘’Herisson Architecture’’ G. Mourou, R. Soulard

ICAN Space Debris Millions of orbital debris are cluttering space

ark Quinn,Remi Soulard, G. Mourou, IZEST-EP

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Thank you

The laser is fifty We have seen notthing yet.

The best is yet to come.