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Appendix E: Petawatt-Class Lasers Summary
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From page 276... ... The megajoule-class lasers, although designed to operate in the nanosecond regime, are true petawatt-class facilities due to their enormous scale. The multi-pass technology allows close packing of the beamlines at large aperture, producing a multi-pass stacked laser architecture. Read the entire page →
From page 277... ... E1.1 Facilities Descriptions Europe The Vulcan laser system2 has been operational for over 30 years, operating within the petawatt regime since 2002. Having opened to the international plasma physics community 2 years later, currently Vulcan remains the longest-running dedicated user facility at petawatt-class. Read the entire page →
From page 278... ... Glass systems Nova LLNL Livermore, USA 660 440 1.5 1996 Single-Shot Vulcan CLF, STFC Oxford, UK 500 500 1 2002 Single-Shot GekkoXII ILE Osaka, Japan 420 470 0.89 2003 Single-Shot Titan LLNL Livermore, USA 300 400 0.75 2007 2/hr Z-Petawatt SNL Sandia, USA 500 500 1 2010 Single-Shot Texas Petawatt Laser Univeristy of Texas, Austin, USA 186 167 1.11 2010 Single-Shot Austin PHELIX GSI, LLNL,CEA Darmstadt, Germany 400 350 1.14 2016 Single-Shot SG-II-U (PW) SIOM Shanghai, China 1000 1000 1 2010 Single-Shot Orion AWE Aldermaston, UK 500 500 1 2013 Single-Shot Omega EP LLE, UoRochester Rochester, USA 1000 1000 1 2008 Single-Shot PETAL CEA Bordeaux, France 3500 500 7 2015 Single-Shot LFEX ILE Osaka, Japan 50000 10000 5 2015 Single-Shot ELI-Beamlines L4 ELI Prague, Czech Republic 1500 150 10 2018 1/min Megajoule lasers NIF LLNL Livermore, USA 1.80E+06 3.60E+06 0.5 2009 Single-Shot LMJ CEA Bordeaux, France 1.80E+06 3.00E+06 0.6 2020 Single-Shot UFL-2M - IR IAP RAS Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 4.60E+06 3.00E+06 1.53 TBD Single-Shot SG-IV SIOM Mianyang, China 1.80E+06 3.00E+06 0.6 TBD Single-Shot aThe summary includes PW-class lasers with a peak power > 0.5 PW, which are currently operational, under construction (i.e., funded) Read the entire page →
From page 279... ... , providing a high repetition rate ion beam source.5 The ELI is currently constructing a beamlines facility in the Czech Republic. Beamlines L4 is estimated to complete construction in 2018.6 The goal for this system is to produce 1.5 kJ pulses within 150 fs. Read the entire page →
From page 280... ... In Russia, there are plans to construct a megajoule facility, UFL-2M.8 The I nstitute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Science (IAP RAS) based in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, began construction early in 2012. Read the entire page →
From page 281... ... , 10 P.K. Patel, 2006, "Titan Laser Jupiter Laser Facility," presented at the Fusion Science Center Meeting, Livermore, Calif., Aug. Read the entire page →
From page 282... ... The Texas Petawatt Laser12 based at the Center for High Energy Density Sci ence at the University of Texas at Austin uses a high energy OPCPA front end with optimized mixed glass to produce shorter pulses than traditional glass petawatt facilities -- 186 J in 167 fs. The Texas Petawatt has accelerated electrons up to ener gies of 7 GeV. Read the entire page →
From page 283... ... Appendix E 283 FIGURE E.4 The Texas Petawatt laser system. SOURCE: Todd Ditmire presentation to the Committee, May 10, 2016. Read the entire page →
From page 284... ... ,18 a mutli-petawatt laser operational at high peak powers. LFEX, in addition to Gekko, makes up the fast ignition realization experiment (FIREX) Read the entire page →
From page 285... ... Appendix E 285 Research Center for Laser Fusion, Mianyang, China. Although the design of the system has not been finalized, it is believed to operate within a similar scale to NIF and LMJ. Read the entire page →
From page 286... ... The highest peak power Ti:Sapphire system in development at present is Apollon, which has recently demonstrated 5 PW peak power with a target of 10 PW.22 Similarly, SIOM is currently constructing a 10 PW laser also currently operational at 5 PW23 and the ELI-Nuclear Physics (NP) Facility has commissioned 2 x 10 PW systems com mercially.24 However, to achieve such high peak powers, these laser facilities must operate at lower repetition rates (<1 shot/min) Read the entire page →
From page 287... ... PULSAR will be operational in 2019 and will operate up to 1 PW peak power in a 30 fs pulse at 10 Hz repetition rate. The proposed picosecond upgrade to the DiPOLE pump laser will be operational following PULSAR and further expand the research capabilities of this exciting new system. Read the entire page →
From page 288... ... Ti:S systems Ti:Sapp 10Hz CLF, STFC Oxford, UK 30 30 1 TBD 10 ELI-L3/ HAPLS LLNL, ELI Prague, Czech Republic 30 30 1 2018 10 VEGA-3 CLPU Salamanca, Spain 30 30 1 2018 1 Atlas 3000 CALA, MPQ Munich, Germany 60 20 3 2017 1 CETAL PW CETAL, Thales Bucharest, Romania 25 25 1 2016 0.1 J-KAREN JAEA Kyoto, Japan 30 30 1 2003 Single-Shot J-KAREN-P JAEA Kyoto, Japan 38.5 30 1.28 2014 0.1 DRACO HZDR, Amplitude Dresden, Germany 30 30 1 2013 1 PULSER II APRI Gwangju, South Korea 44.5 30.2 1.47 2012 0.1 PULSER I APRI Gwangju, South Korea 34 30 1.13 2010 0.1 BELLA Berkeley Lab Berkeley, USA 42 30 1.4 2012 1 Diocles Extreme Light U Neb., Lincoln, USA 30 30 1 2012 0.1 Laboratory Laserix CLUPS Paris, France 40 50 0.8 2011 0.1 Gemini 2 PW CLF, STFC Oxford, UK 60 30 2 2019 0.05 Gemini CLF, STFC Oxford, UK 15 30 0.5 2008 0.05 ALLS INRS Canada 10 20 0.5 2008 2.5 SIOM Ti:S CPA SIOM, Amplitude Shanghai, China 138.5 27 5.13 2015 1/min XL-III IPhys Beijing, China 32.3 27.9 1.16 2011 0.05 OPCPA/ Ti:S hybrid lasers Apollon CILEX Paris, France 150 15 10 2018 1/min ELI-ALPS ELI Budapest, Hungary 40 15 2.67 2018? Read the entire page →
From page 289... ... ELI Beamlines L327 is currently under development by LLNL, pumped by the High-Repetition-Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System (HAPLS) Read the entire page →
From page 290... ... The published operational capability is 40 J in a 50 fs pulse duration producing a peak power of 0.8 PW and an operational repetition rate of 0.1 Hz. The facility is in the process of being moved to Centre Interdisciplinaire Lumiere Extreme (CILEX) Read the entire page →
From page 291... ... Each is able to deliver 10 Hz, 30 fs beams to targets at low peak powers. Vega-2 produces a 6 J pulse while the pulse from Vega-1 is in the millijoule range. Read the entire page →
From page 292... ... near Montreal. The most powerful laser in Canada, the system produces ultra-short pulses at a peak power of 0.5 PW. Read the entire page →
From page 293... ... FIGURE E.11 The Diocles facility at the Extreme Light Laboratory, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. SOURCE: www.unl.edu/diocles. Read the entire page →
From page 294... ... This will allow it to operate with a peak power of 4 PW but at a much reduced repetition rate. The XL-III laser facility41 is a laser operated by the Chinese Academy of Sci ences. Read the entire page →
From page 295... ... Kirsanov, G.A. Luchinin, et al., 2007, Compact 0.56 Petawatt laser system based on optical parametric chirped pulse amplification in KD* Read the entire page →
From page 296... ... Turčičová, and P Straka, 2013, Design of a petawatt optical parametric chirped pulse amplification upgrade of the kilojoule iodine laser PALS, Laser and Particle Beams 31(2) Read the entire page →
From page 297... ... OPCPA lasers PEARL IAP RAS Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 24 43 0.56 2007 Single-Shot PEARL-10 IAP RAS Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 150 30 5 2016 Single-Shot XG-III SIOM Shanghai, China 32.6 32 1.02 2013 0.05 SG-II SIOM Shanghai, China 150 30 5 2015 Single-Shot Petawatt field synthesiser LMU, MPQ Munich, Germany 5 5 1 2017 10 Vulcan 2020 CLF, STFC Oxford, UK 600 30 20 TBD Single-Shot ELI-Beamlines L2 ELI Prague, Czech Republic 20 20 1 TBD 10 PALS ELI Prague, Czech Republic 34 23 1.48 TBD Single-Shot OMEGA EP OPAL LLE, UoRochester U Rochester, USA 1600 20 75 TBD Single-Shot XCELS IAP RAS Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 4800 25 192 TBD Single-Shot Gekko EXA ILE Osaka, Japan 500 10 50 TBD Single-Shot ELI 4th Pillar ELI TBD 200 TBD Single-Shot SOURCE: J Read the entire page →
From page 298... ... A similar planned project to that of the ELI fourth pillar at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Nizhny Novgorod is the Exawatt Centre for Extreme Light Studies (XCELS) .52 This megascience project in Russia is to produce an exawatt laser system for fundamental science. Read the entire page →
From page 299... ... Mi yanaga, and Gekko-EXA Design Team, 2016, Conceptual design of sub-exa-watt system by using optical parametric chirped pulse amplification, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 688: 012044. Read the entire page →
From page 300... ... Albach, and U Schramm, 2013, PEnELOPE: a high peak power diode-pumped laser system for laser-plasma experiments, PROC SPIE 8780: 878005. Read the entire page →
From page 301... ... Direct Diode pumped lasers POLARIS HI-Jena Jena, Germany 150 150 1 2016 0.025 PEnELOPE HZDR Dresden, Germany 150 120 1.25 2016 1Hz SOURCE: J Collier, Rutherford Central Laser Facility. Read the entire page →
From page 302... ... SOURCE: J Collier, Rutherford Central Laser Facility. Read the entire page →

From page 276...

... The megajoule-class lasers, although designed to operate in the nanosecond regime, are true petawatt-class facilities due to their enormous scale. The multi-pass technology allows close packing of the beamlines at large aperture, producing a multi-pass stacked laser architecture.

Appendix E: Petawatt-Class Lasers Summary Pages 276-302

Appendix E: Petawatt-Class Lasers Summary
Pages 276-302