Amplification and Compression Techniques
Developing techniques to increase the energy and/or power of a laser beam, for instance CPA, OPCPA, phase-envelope stabilisation or hollow-fiber compression.
GSI (Darmstadt, Germany)
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany is an accelerator laboratory hosting PHELIX (Petawatt High-Energy Laser for Ion eXperiments), both for combined laser/accelerator and standalone laser experiments. The PHELIX laser at GSI presently permits two types of operation: Pulses of a duration between 0.5 ns and 20 ns with a widely variable pulse shape and energies up to 1 kJ, and 0.5 ps short-pulse petawatt-class operation. One high-energy and one low-energy laser stand-alone target area are available, as well as a target area for combined laser / linear accelerator ion beam experiments with a dedicated 100 TW proton acceleration beamline. A new target area dedicated to combined laser / synchrotron ion beam experiments will be available by 2021.
CELIA (Bordeaux, France)
CELIA is a centre of excellence in lasers and their interaction with matter. Research is performed on laser development, ultra-short intense laser matter interactions and applications, from the physics of hot dense plasmas to laser-molecule or laser-atom interactions. 3 state-of-the art laser drivers based on Ti:sapphire and Yb:fiber feed 9 fully-equipped end-stations including secondary XUV and X-ray sources.
CLPU (Salamanca, Spain)
Centro de Laseres Pulsados / Center for Pulsed Lasers, Salamanca, Spain
LIDYL (Saclay, France)
Located in Saclay, France, LIDYL is a fundamental research laboratory whose activities focus on radiation-matter interaction and applications. LIDYL's research programs cover the study of both electronic and nuclear dynamics, in the gas and condensed phases, from the simplest atomic and molecular systems to the most complex ones (biomolecules and nano-objects) and to laser-created plasmas using high-intensity fs lasers.
LOA (Palaiseau, France)
LOA has played a pioneering role in the development of ultrafast laser-matter science at high intensities and related new concept of ultrafast lasers and secondary sources (electrons, protons, EUV, X-ray and gamma-rays, THz). LOA was one of the founders of the LASERLAB community. LOA develops cutting-edge advanced programs to answer scientific and societal challenges.
MBI (Berlin, Germany)
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany
VULRC (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Vilnius University Laser Research Center (VULRC) hosts a number of laboratories dedicated to fundamental and applied laser research. The research topics include but are not limited to laser micromachining, nanophotonics, standardized metrology of optical components, development of novel laser and parametric sources, investigation of nonlinear phenomena in the NIR and MIR spectral ranges, generation and application of broadband terahertz pulses, time-resolved spectroscopy, nonlinear microscopy and laser induced breakdown spectroscopy.
CUSBO (Milan, Italy)
CUSBO covers a broad range of activities of interdisciplinary nature. Several unique state of the art sources provide few-cycle light pulses, either widely-tunable or of high peak power seeding attosecond beamlines, for pump-probe experiments. Advanced laser workstations mostly based on time-resolved measurements are also applied to non-invasive clinical diagnostics, biological imaging, and non-destructive analysis of food and cultural heritage.
LENS (Florence, Italy)
LENS, the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, is a center of excellence at the University of Florence. Research interests include photonics, biophysics, chemistry and atomic physics. Three different main research areas (BIOPHOTONICS, PHOTONIC MATERIALS, ATOMIC PHYSICS) and more than twenty research topics, corresponding to active laboratories, are presently running.
LLAMS (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Institute for Lasers, Life and Biophotonics Amsterdam (LaserLaB Amsterdam), Netherlands
CLF (Oxfordshire, UK)
The CLF offers access to five unique laser facilities for multi-disciplinary research. VULCAN operates two target areas: a high energy 1 PW capability and a synchronised 100 TW & 2 kJ/ns capability, both with very flexible configurations for research in high energy density science. GEMINI offers a unique synchronised dual beam capability with 0.5 PW beams operating at one shot every 20 seconds, focussing on plasma accelerators and the generation and application of secondary sources. ARTEMIS has three beamlines utilising HHG, at 1 kHz/800 nm/200 eV and 100 kHz/1700 nm/1 keV (due online shortly), with a wide suite of end stations for pump-probe experiments in ultrafast XUV science. ULTRA is an ultrafast pump-probe laser spectroscopy facility, combining laser, detector and sample manipulation technology to probe ultrafast molecular dynamics. OCTOPUS: a suite of imaging and laser trapping capabilities, such as super-resolution (including cryogenic), confocal, and light sheet microscopy, single molecule imaging/tracking, and focused ion beam SEM.
HILASE (Dolni Břežany, Czech Republic)
HiLASE operates two diode-pumped Yb:YAG solid state laser facilities: Bivoj, delivering over 1 kW of average power in 105 J, 10 ns pulses at 10 Hz, for laser shock peening and ion generation, and Perla, a high average power laser platform generating < 2 ps pulses in broad spectral region from 206 nm to 3 microns for laser processing.