Extreme Light Infrastucture (ELI)

Science and Technology at the ultra-intense Frontier

Bruno Le Garrec

bruno.legarrec@eli-beams.eu

On behalf of Georg Korn, Bedrich Rus and the ELI-Beamlines team

Institute of Physics v.v.i., Prague Czech Republic

SPIE Photonics West 2.2.2014

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Outline

• What is ELI – Where are we coming from and where are we going

• ELI-Beamlines – In the Czech Republic

• Lasers – Technologies

• Experiments – Planned experiments and some we are involved in

• Beam transport and switchyard – Because beamlines should go to experimental areas

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Extreme Light Infrastructure

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Czech Republic

Prague

Hungary

Szeged Romania

Bucharest - Magurele

2007-2010 ELI Preparatory Phase project (13 countries)

Oct 1st, 2009 ELI-PP Steering Committee approves the conception of three

ELI pillars (Beamlines, Attosecond, Nuclear Physics)

Attosecond facility, ALPS

Beamlines facility

Attosecond XUV/X-ray physics

High-brightness sources of X-ray radiation & particles

Photonuclear facility , NP

Szeged

Magurele

Prague

Laser-induced nuclear physics

200 PW facility (?) Frontier physics by exawatt lasers

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Structure of implementation of the ELI project

May 2010 ELI-Beamlines pre-approved for funding

Apr 2011 ELI-Beamlines funding approved by EC

Aug 2011 Funding (278 M€) signed by the Czech Rep’s Ministry of

Education, Sports and Youth

Dec 2012 Agreement from EC to deliver facility after 2015

European Regional Development Fund

(infrastructural funds)

May 2013 Facility Construction start

Sept 2015 Start of installation of laser systems

Dec 2015 Phase I completed: two laser units + support installed

2016-2017 Phase II: lasers & experiments installed

2018 Facility commissionning

ELI project background

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ELI Beamlines location

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Building http://www.eli-beams.eu/about/building/

• Site area 65,000 m2

• Building(s) 28,645 m2

• Building volume 170,000 m3

• Experimental building 16,500 m2

• Laboratories 4,500 m2

• Offices 4,400 m2

• Multifunction areas 2,300 m2

• Total estimated construction costs of €65M

• Foundation raft slab thickness 1m;

• 1.6m shielded reinforced concrete walls in the underground;

• Cellular reinforced concrete ceiling slab thickness 1.5m; span 20m

Lasers

Experiments

ELI Beamlines mission: fundamental & applied science

• Research Program 1: lasers generating rep‐rate ultra-short pulses and multi‐petawatt peak power

• Research Program 2: X‐ray sources driven by rep‐rate ultra-short laser pulses.

• Research Program 3: particle acceleration by lasers

• Research Program 4: applications in molecular, biomedical, and material sciences

• Research Program 5: laser plasma and high‐energy‐density physics

• Research Program 6: high‐field physics

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WP 3 Lasers

WP 4.3 Beam Transport

WP 5 Secondary

Sources

WP 6 Experiments

ELI-Beamlines baseline

ELI- Beamlines baseline

• 4 beamlines “L1, L2, L3 and L4”

• L1 kHz rep-rate, 100 to 200 mJ, 20 fs

• L2 and L3 PW at 10 Hz, 20-30 J, 20-30 fs

• L4: 10 PW and high energy “kJ” beam, 1.5 kJ – 150 fs

• Beamlines based either on existing or newly developed technologies

• DPSSL and flashlamp pumped

• OPCPA, Ti: Sapphire and mixed glass technologies

• Thin disk (MPQ, MBI and Trumpf)

• Multi slabs ( Dipole – STFC, Mercury- LIFE- LLNL)

• Mixed glass (Texas PW laser, Apollon pump laser)

• Czech program for High Power Laser development “HILASE”

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ELI- Beamlines baseline

• L1: DPSSL / ps pump for OPCPA

– Mostly developed and built at the Institute of Physics in Prague

• L2: DPSSL – Yb:YAG cryo-cooled multi slabs

– First step 10J/10Hz bought from STFC (Dipole type)

– Second step 100/10Hz bought by HILASE from STFC

• L3: DPSSL – Nd:Glass He cooled multi slabs (Mercury like)

– Contract with LLNS signed in September 2013

• L4: flashlamp – mixed glass (Apollon pump laser type)

– Tender in process, 2nd round

• J.T. Green et al, Monday 3rd, session 8, SPIE 8959-35

• R. Antipenkov et al, Monday 3rd, session 9, SPIE 8959-44

• J. Novak et al, Tuesday 4th, session 11, SPIE 8959-49

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HiLASE http://www.hilase.cz/en/

• Research Program 1 (kW-class thin-disk laser)

– Milestone 1: 100 mJ @ 1 kHz, 1-2 ps 2013

– Milestone 2: 0.5 J @ 1 kHz, 1-2 ps 2014

– Milestone 4: 5 mJ @ 100 kHz, 1-2 ps 2014

– Milestone 3: ~1 J @ 1 kHz, 1-2 ps 2015

• Research Program 2 (cryo-cooled multislab laser)

– Milestone 1: 1-10 J @ 10 Hz, ns, 160 K 2014

– Milestone 2: 100 J @ 10 Hz, 2-3 ns, 160 K 2015

• Research Program 3 (Applications)

– Design and install processing chambers 2014

– Use RP-1 & RP-2 lasers for industrial application 2015

• P. Sikocinski et al, Monday session 6, SPIE 8959-26

• M. Chyla et al, Monday session 7, SPIE 8959-29

• Posters SPIE 8959-72, 73 & 75 12

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ELI-Beamlines baseline

• kHz repetition rate laser using thin-disk pump

technology

• Oscillator and common front end producing

mutually synchronized seed pulses

• Capable to generate several seeds with

central wavelengths from 800 to 900 nm

• Picosecond OPCPA system for broadband

amplification

L1 Beamline

Front end

Pump laser(s)

Compressor chamber

OPCPA & mirror

compressor Diagnostics

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L2 beamline: OPCPA

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Yb:YAG amp head & pump diode lasers 10J / 10Hz Yb:YAG subsystem: STFC Front end, beam transport & cryo unit: ELI-Beamlines

High average power Ti:sapphire multipass amplifiers L3 pumped by Nd:glass operating at near-room-temperature

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L3 PW-type beamlines

L4 Beamline

• Main beam energy (fundamental wavelength) >1.5 kJ

• Stretched pulse duration 0.5 to 3 ns

• Shot rate >1 per minute

• Compressed pulse peak power ≥10 PW

• Compressed pulse duration <150 fs direct compression,

• Nanosecond kJ pulses required for laser plasma experiments

• Spectral bandwidth for direct compression to ~150 fs (e- acceleration)

Upgrade option: OPCPA

10PW: mixed glass system Mixed glass technology: high energy & bandwidth equivalent to <130 fs FWHM *

* ELI - Extreme Light Infrastructure White Book: Science and Technology with Ultra-Intense Lasers edited by G. Mourou, G. Korn, W. Sandner and J. Collier (2011)

Nd:phosphate glass 1053.9 nm Nd:silicate glass 1061 nm Texas Petawatt laser:

185 J / 130 fs – scalable -> 1900 J /130 fs

• Straightforward choice for e- acceleration • The laser can be used as a pump of an OPCPA chain (Vulcan 10 PW solution)

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Experiments

• Secondary sources and beamlines, applications based on intense laser plasma interaction and connected with it => High Harmonic Generation => X-rays => Particle acceleration (e, p, ions)

• Secondary effects of electron acceleration: X-rayBeam (compact laser driven X-FEL, betatron radiation,..)

• Plasma physics, Raman and Brillouin amplification schemes

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ELI- Beamlines baseline

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Secondary sources

Experimental Areas, Basement floor

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E1: HHG, k-alpha,

3D3C imag. E2: Betatron

E3: Plasma Physics

Combinations with different lasers,

Backighters x-rays and protons, optical E4: ELIMAIA

Combination with backlighting, after

proton heating of samples

E5: LUX , HELL, HHG

OPA, Compton, Kalpha

Systems Engineering

Systems engineering at the facility level:

• Alignment (lasers to experiments)

• Diagnostics

• Beam Transport

• Control system – Linux & C++ & Python

– & Tango/EPICS

• Performance – Virtual Beamline Model

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L2

L4 L1

L3

Conclusion

• => mid 2015 building ready

• http://www.eli-beams.eu/about/building/

• => end 2015 develop and buy most of the technology – two beamlines L1 , L2 available

– Beam transport, support technologies

• => 2016-2017: 4 beamlines, commissioning

• => 2018 starts experiments and toward a users’ facility

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