Extreme light physics (ELI)

Author

Mourou, Gérard

Author_Institution

Inst. de la Limiere Extreme, ENSTA, Palaiseau, France

fYear

2009

fDate

30-3 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

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 (I_L>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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292244

Filename

5292244