the apollon/ile 10pw laser project a potential prototype for eli “tisa based” lasers associated...

The APOLLON/ILE 10PW Laser projectA potential prototype for ELI “TiSa based” lasersAssociated laser bottlenecks and required collaborative R&D

Matthieu Somekh (DRIP Ecole Polytechnique)Jean Paul Chambaret (ILE)

Gérard Mourou (ILE)

[email protected]@ensta.fr

ELI Nuclear Physics meeting, Bucarest Feb1-2, 2010

The most powerful installations (100-200TW)

(Commercially available)

The most powerful installations (100-200TW)

(Commercially available)

1PW ~highest power laser today

(Astra Gemini, Vulcan)

200PWELI

The highest peak power project

10PWApollon (ILE)

How to compare ILE APOLLON and ELI with existing UHI lasers

I < 1021 W/cm²

1022 W/cm²

1023 1024W /cm²

1025W /cm²


Early Front End Front End

FRONT END

10 mJ<10fs1KHz

100 mJ<10fs10Hz

Ampli1 Ampli2 Ampli3

POWER AMPLIFIERS

15J15fs0.1-1Hz

150J15fs1shot/mn

2J15fs10Hz

10TW1021W/cm²

150TW1022W/cm²

1PW1023W/cm²

10PW1024W/cm²

ILE – APOLLON 10P : the French ELI single beamlineprototype


150J / 15 fs @1shot/mn10 PW

Ampli 02J /1Hz

Nd YAG6J/1Hz

Ampli 1« LASERIX »50J /0.1Hz

Nd Glass100J/0.1Hz

Ampli 2600J -1shot/mn

Nd Glass1.5KJ – 1tr/mn

Amplifiers

synchronized

OPCPAAmplification stagesLBO/BBO

KHz Ti:Sa30 fs @ 800 nm

500 µJ

Spectral broadening< 10 fs @ 800 nm 100 µJ, kHz

Yb:KGW Diode pumped 300 fs, 200 µJ @ 1030 nm

Amplis Yb:KGWYb:YAG Diode pumped 2 J @ 1030 nm1Hz

10 fs @ 800 nm 100 mJ, 1Hz

Front End

Compressionand SHG 1 à 100 ps1 J @ 515 nm1 Hz

ILE APOLLON Single beamline 10PW laser

ILE – APOLLON 10P : A collaborative project betweenSeveral laboratories on the « Plateau de Saclay »

180 mm

520 mm

200 mm

520 mm

DM1DM2

SFG1

G2

G2bG3

G4

G3b

Vacuum compression / spatial beam control


Synchronisation

OPCPAAmplification stages(BBO ou LBO)

fs kHzTi:Saphir 30 fs @ 800 nm800 µJ

Spec. Broadening < 10 fs @ 800 nm 600 µJ, kHz

Laser fs Yb:KGW Diode pumped 300 fs, 200 µJ @ 1030 nm

Amplis Yb:KGWand Yb:YAG Diode pumped2 J @ 1030 nm100 – 1 KHz

Compressionand SHG 1 - 100 ps1 J @ 515 nm100-1 KHz

10 fs @ 800 nm 100 mJ, 100-1KHz

XPWCleaning120µJ

ILE – APOLLON 10P : the French ELI single beamlineprototype

ILE Front End


Collaboration With MBI

On thin disk Yb amplifiers

ILE – APOLLON 10P : the French ELI single lineprototype

1 J

Amp-0.3: 10 Hz Diam = 6 mmEpompe = 1 JEentrée = 0.03 JEsortie = 0.3J

Amp-30: 1 tir/mn Diam= 50 mmEpompe= 70 JEentrée= 3 JEsortie = 30J


Amp-3: 0.1 Hz – 1 tir/mn? Diam = 22 mmEpompe = 10 JEentrée = 0.3 JEsortie = 3J


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alignement 1er point d’alignement

alignement

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TiSa power amplifiers section


*R&D in progress with CRYSTAL SYSTEMS based on HEM to grow size up to 8”

ILE #4 in the evaluation process. After processing, the boule diameter is 192 mm,

and the height is 122 mm.Last result (July 2008)

Large size TiSa crystals

*R&D with RSA Le Rubis (Fr) to grow TiSa crystals first up to 100mm, then to 200mm Kiropoulos growing process

Déc2008 1er french crystal TiSabyR SA le Rubis

*More recently, new developments in China at Shanghaï Institute of Ceramics using Bridgman process


ILE – APOLLON 10P : the French ELI single lineprototype

1 J

Amp-0.3: 10 Hz Diam = 6 mmEpompe = 1 JEentrée = 0.03 JEsortie = 0.3J



Amp-3: 0.1 Hz – 1 tir/mn? Diam = 22 mmEpompe = 10 JEentrée = 0.3 JEsortie = 3J


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TiSa power amplifiers section


Collaborative R&D with industries for overcoming ILE /ELI Bottlenecks on pump lasers

Big international tender launched in January 2009 (4 years) called « Competitive dialog procedure »

TiSa large pump lasers (ns)

Laurence Livermore Nat Lab

200J of green /nanosecond (20-30ns) / single beamline, >1shot/mn


Large size SHG crystals for pump lasers:LBO strategy

Large size (>Φ 50mm) LBO SHG Crystals (Cristal Laser / French company)

CLEO 2008 postdeadline

During Summer 2008 >93% achieved on Alisé laser with a 19 mm thick crystal!

Last year using a Φ 50mm LBO type I crystal on Alisé Laser


Large size SHG crystals for pump lasers:LBO strategy (2)

SHG record in LBO : More than 200 J on Alisé Laser at CEASHG record in LBO : More than 200 J on Alisé Laser at CEA

LBO type 1 65 mm e=12mm

E (1053nm) : 235JE(527nm) : 217J92%

Input beam Top Hat12ns, 53mm

June June 2009 2009


Pump beam

Nd:verre

courtesy Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

SILIOS diffractive elementsImplemented on Astra Gemini !

For large crystals, absolute need of smoothing techniques

ILE – APOLLON 10P: DOE as Homogenizers

DiffractiveOpticalElement


ILE – APOLLON 10P : CompressionNew approach with « low index » grating

If increasing the fluence on gratings from 0.1 to 1J/cm²


1024W/cm² (10PW/1µm²)

180 mm

400mm

200 mm

400 mm

DM1DM2

SFG1

G2

G3

G4

DM = deformable mirrorSF = spatial filter

ILE – APOLLON 10P : Wave front control

Wave front control


bimorph NIGHT N mirrorDiameter 150mmDielectric coating

1,06µmCILAS mirrors (monomorph looks very promising

diameter up to 200 mm? dielectric coating?)

ILE/ELI DM requirements : Useful aperture 200mm

Hard dielectric coating for broadband fs pulses

Force momentum mirrorPrototype diameter 200mm

Deformable Mirror development


The last bottleneck …. But not the leastLarge optics with High Damage Threshold broadband coatings

Our requirements:

- Broadband reflection coatings (>200nm, 700-900nm)

- High fs Damage threshold : ≈ 1J/cm² for 15fs pulses

- Large size optics and mirrors : 250 x 350 mm

Need collaborative R&D with industrial companies expert in the fieldLike PGL, Okamoto, Sagem Reosc, etc…


High-intensityTest and user

facility10-Hz ampsDPSSL-pumped

OPCPA

1-kHz systemPFS DPSSL-pumped

High rep. Rate OPCPA

Atto user/testfacility

gas & plasma HHG

Synchronised XUV – IR

user facility

2x20

PW

<10 fs

100 TW

100 TW

Optical synchro

modular extension possibility

0.1-HzPower amps

Ti:Sapphirebeam

recombi-nation

0.1-HzPower ampsTi:Sapphire

XUV/X-ray

beams

HU

2 oscillators+ PFS preamps

1 kHz

2-3 J / 100 HzBooster amp 1PFS technology

DPSSL pump

Booster amp 2PFS technology

DPSSL pump

Booster amp 3PFS technology

DPSSL pump

Power amp (2x)OPCPA 10J beamline

DPSSL pump

10 PW block (2x)TI:Sapph

Flashlamp pump

Power amp (2x)OPCPA 50J beamline

DPSSL pump

BACKUP Power ampsTi:Sapph >50J beamline

Flashlamp pump

< 6 fs

1J / 100 Hz

1J / 100 Hz High-intensityTest & user facility

e- and p+ acceleration

XUV / X-ray generation

Plasma physicsWDM

10 J / 10Hz

50 J / 10Hz

50 J / 1Hz

100 J / 0.1Hz

CZ

1 oscillator TiSa+ OPCPA preamps

100Hz

<10 fs

10 TW10 PW block (2x)

TI:SapphFlashlamp pump

300 J / 0.1Hz

3x 10PW

Nuclear Physics and High Intensity

RO

Importance of Ti:Sapphire approachfor the first 3 ELI Sites

at least 9 “Apollon 10P like” lasersELI Nuclear Physics meeting, Bucarest Feb1-2, 2010

Early Front End Front End

FRONT END

10 mJ<10fs1KHz

100 mJ<10fs10Hz

1J<10fs1KHz

Ampli

Ampli1 Ampli2 Ampli3

POWER AMPLIFIERS

30J15fs0.1-1Hz

300J15fs1shot/mn

3.0KJ15fs1shot/mn

2J15fs10Hz

10 Laser BEAMLINES

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10TW1021W/cm²

150TW1022W/cm²

2PW1023W/cm²

20PW1024W/cm²

0.20EW>1025W/cm²

+ ELI High Intensity Pillar Laser expected performances (10 x 20PW)



Absolute need of finalizing the ongoing R&D on Ti:Sa technological bottlenecks

- Large TiSa crystals growing process (up to 200mm in diameter)

- Large LBO SHG Crystals (finalize the manufacturing capability of 60-70mm crystals)

All bottlenecks have already been more or less overcome through the 10M€ ILE APOLLON R&D effort, leading to the ability of building the first 10PW prototype

But a big effort still remains to be done for finalizing the manufacturing developments and industrial processes on:

- Broad band High damage threshold compressor gratings

- Efficient and powerful pump lasers

- High repetition rate diode pumped Thin disk Lasers for OPCPA front end pumping

- Large homogenizers

- Large aperture High damage threshold Adaptive optics (deformable mirrors)

- New broadband High damage threshold HR coatings


APOLLON ILE and ELI High IntensityLaser possible location

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

10 PW @ 1shot/mn

0.20EW =200 PW @ 1shot/mn 10 beams

ILE/APOLLON (France)

ELIHigh Field Pillar?

2013 2014

Preparatory Phase Final design and construction Phase

Roadmap for ILE and ELI


THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

Our website: www.eli-laser.eu

To all APOLLON/ILE Workpackages leaders:Patrick Georges3, Gilles Chériaux2, Gilles Rey2, Catherine Le Blanc4, Patrick Audebert4, Denis Douillet2, Jean Luc Paillard4,

Patrick Cavillac1, Dominique Fournet1, François Mathieu1, 1 ILE, ENSTA - Ecole Polytechnique, UMS 3205, Chemin de la Hunière, 91761 Palaiseau Cedex, France2 LOA, ENSTA - Ecole Polytechnique, UMR 7639 Chemin de la Hunière, 91761 Palaiseau Cedex, France3 LCFIO, UMR 8501 Institut d’Optique, Campus de Polytechnique, RD12, 91127 Palaiseau Cedex France4 LULI, UMR7605, Ecole Polytechnique, Route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau, France

Aknowledgments


To all industrial companies working with ILE on R&D:Crystal Systems Inc, RSA Le Rubis, SIC, Cristal Laser, Jobin Yvon, Quantel, Thales OSA,Continuum, LLNL, MBI, PGL, Okamoto, Sagem, SILIOS, Cilas, Imagine Optics, Phasics,Seso, Amplitude Systems, Amplitude Technologies, etc…...

the apollon/ile 10pw laser project a potential prototype for eli “tisa based” lasers associated...

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