Extreme Light Infrastucture (ELI) Science and Technology at the ultra-intense Frontier. Bruno Le Garrec

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1 SPIE Photonics West Extreme Light Infrastucture (ELI) Science and Technology at the ultra-intense Frontier Bruno Le Garrec On behalf of Georg Korn, Bedrich Rus and the ELI-Beamlines team Institute of Physics v.v.i., Prague Czech Republic 1

2 What is ELI Outline 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 2

3 Extreme Light Infrastructure ELI Preparatory Phase project (13 countries) Oct 1 st, 2009 ELI-PP Steering Committee approves the conception of three ELI pillars (Beamlines, Attosecond, Nuclear Physics) Czech Republic Prague Hungary Szeged Romania Bucharest - Magurele 3

4 Structure of implementation of the ELI project Prague Beamlines facility High-brightness sources of X-ray radiation & particles Szeged Attosecond facility, ALPS Attosecond XUV/X-ray physics Magurele Photonuclear facility, NP Laser-induced nuclear physics 200 PW facility (?) Frontier physics by exawatt lasers 4

5 ELI project background 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 Dec 2015 Start of installation of laser systems Phase I completed: two laser units + support installed Phase II: lasers & experiments installed 2018 Facility commissionning 5

6 ELI Beamlines location 6

7 Building Site area 65,000 m 2 Building(s) 28,645 m 2 Building volume 170,000 m 3 Experimental building 16,500 m 2 Laboratories 4,500 m 2 Offices 4,400 m 2 Experiments Lasers Multifunction areas 2,300 m 2 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 7

8 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 ultrashort 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 8

9 ELI-Beamlines baseline WP 3 Lasers WP 5 Secondary Sources WP 6 Experiments WP 4.3 Beam Transport 9

10 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, J, 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 10

11 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, 2 nd round J.T. Green et al, Monday 3 rd, session 8, SPIE R. Antipenkov et al, Monday 3 rd, session 9, SPIE J. Novak et al, Tuesday 4 th, session 11, SPIE

12 HiLASE Research Program 1 (kw-class thin-disk laser) Milestone 1: khz, 1-2 ps 2013 Milestone 2: khz, 1-2 ps 2014 Milestone 4: khz, 1-2 ps 2014 Milestone 3: ~1 1 khz, 1-2 ps 2015 Research Program 2 (cryo-cooled multislab laser) Milestone 1: Hz, ns, 160 K 2014 Milestone 2: 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 M. Chyla et al, Monday session 7, SPIE Posters SPIE , 73 & 75 12

13 ELI-Beamlines baseline 13

14 L1 Beamline 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 OPCPA & mirror compressor Diagnostics Pump laser(s) Front end Compressor chamber 14

15 L2 beamline: OPCPA Yb:YAG amp head & pump diode lasers 10J / 10Hz Yb:YAG subsystem: STFC Front end, beam transport & cryo unit: ELI-Beamlines 15

16 L3 PW-type beamlines High average power Ti:sapphire multipass amplifiers L3 pumped by Nd:glass operating at near-room-temperature 16

17 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

18 10PW: mixed glass system Mixed glass technology: high energy & bandwidth equivalent to <130 fs FWHM * Nd:phosphate glass 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) * 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) 18

19 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 19

20 ELI- Beamlines baseline Secondary sources 20

21 Experimental Areas, Basement floor E5: LUX, HELL, HHG OPA, Compton, Kalpha E1: HHG, k-alpha, E2: Betatron 3D3C imag. E3: Plasma Physics Combinations with different lasers, Backighters x-rays and protons, optical E4: ELIMAIA Combination with backlighting, after proton heating of samples 21

22 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 L2 L1 L3 L4 22

23 Conclusion => mid 2015 building ready => end 2015 develop and buy most of the technology two beamlines L1, L2 available Beam transport, support technologies => : 4 beamlines, commissioning => 2018 starts experiments and toward a users facility 23