Title :
Extreme light physics (ELI)
Author_Institution :
Inst. de la Limiere Extreme, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France
Abstract :
ELI will be the first infrastructure dedicated to the fundamental study of laser-matter interaction in a new and unsurpassed regime of laser intensity: the ultra-relativistic regime (IL>1023 W/cm2). At its centre will be an exawatt-class laser -1000 times more powerful than either the Laser Megajoule in France or the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the US. In contrast to these projects, ELI will attain its extreme power from the shortness of its pulses (femtosecond and attosecond). The infrastructure will serve to investigate a new generation of compact accelerators delivering energetic particle and radiation beams of femtosecond (10-15) to attosecond (10-18 s) duration.
Keywords :
ignition; laser beams; optical pulse generation; particle accelerators; France; Laser Megajoule; National Ignition Facility; USA; attosecond pulse; compact accelerator generation; energetic particle; exawatt-class laser; extreme light physics; femtosecond pulse; laser intensity; laser matter interaction; radiation beams; ultra-relativistic regime; Aging; Biomedical imaging; Laser beams; Medical treatment; Nuclear electronics; Oncology; Particle beams; Physics; Power lasers; Ultrafast electronics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3829-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3830-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292244
