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MONDAY |
TUESDAY |
WEDNESDAY |
THURSDAY |
FRIDAY |
8:30 |
W. Sandner (Invited):
Overview for the Ultrahigh Intensity Laser Development Effort in Europe |
C. Haefner (Invited):
System Development for a 4 PW Capability at the National Ignition Facility |
C. Dorrer:
Characterization of Highly Dispersive Components using Direct Instantaneous Frequency Measurements |
A. Galvanauskas (Invited):
Coherent combination of fs pulses from fiber amplifiers |
D. Dumitras (Invited):
50 years of laser research in Romania |
8:45 |
F. Wagner:
A compact temporal-contrast boosting module for the PHELIX petawatt laser facility |
9:00 |
C. Barty (Invited):
Overview for the Ultrahigh Intensity Laser Development Effort in North America |
N. Hopps (Invited):
Orion Facility Status Update |
P. M. Paul:
Latest results on ultra high dynamic third order cross-correlator for 10^(-14) Ultra High Contrast Laser |
J. Dawson (Invited):
High Average Power Fiber Laser Systems and Diode
Pumping for Accelerator Applications |
R. Dabu (Invited):
Evolution of high-power femtosecond lasers capabilities in Romania |
9:15 |
C. Hooker:
Investigation of the contrast pedestal in femtosecond Tisapphire laser pulses |
9:30 |
H. Azechi (Invited):
Overview for the Ultrahigh Intensity Laser Development Effort in Asia |
A. Kuzmin:
300 J Ndglass laser with pulse repetition rate of 1 shot per 1 minute |
U. Eisenbarth:
Optifocus - A reference-free focal spot optimization method using adaptive optics |
L. Zapata:
nergy and Average Power Scaling of Chirped-Pulse Amplifiers |
D. Ursescu
Progress at the multi-PW ELI-NP laser facility |
9:45 |
L. Meignien:
Fiber based modulator systems at 1053 nm for ‘shaped’ long pulse on LULI2000 |
M. Hornung:
Intensity and contrast improvements of the diode-pumped laser system POLARIS |
A. Kosuge:
Diode-pumped 1.2 ps mode-locked Nd3+-doped mixed scandium garnets ceramic laser |
M. Zamfirescu:
Material processing by ultrashort laser pulses |
10:00 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
10:30 |
T. Kühl:
Laser acceleration in the radiation-pressure-regime from ultra-thin polymer foils |
N. Bonod (Invited):
Recent advances in high damage threshold diffraction gratings for pulse compression applications |
H. Howard (Invited):
An Improved Cleaning Method to Enhance the Damage Threshold of MLD Gratings |
T. Tajima (Invited):
IZEST and the Intensity Frontier |
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10:45 |
B. Ramakrishna:
MeV ion acceleration from ultra-high intense laser matter interaction and their applications |
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11:00 |
A. Korzhimanov:
Generation and acceleration of high-energy mid-Z ions by petawatt-class laser systems in structured targets |
J. Qiao:
Design and Analysis of a Meter-Size Deformable Multilayer-Dielectric-Grating–Based Compressor for Kilojoule, Petawatt Laser Systems |
J. Shao (Invited):
High-damage-threshold coating design and characterization for short-pulse laser |
G. Korn (Invited):
Overview of ELI Project |
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11:15 |
Z. Harman:
Laser acceleration of high-quality ion beams for cancer radiotherapy |
J. K. Crane:
Precision Alignment Techniques for Eight Parallel Compressors on the National Ignition Facility |
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11:30 |
J. Bin:
Laser-driven nanosecond proton source and its applications |
Time dedicated to exhibition |
O. Utéza:
Laser damage and ablation in ultrashort pulsed regime - test bench, measurements and applications |
M. Kuzmina:
Experimental study of laser radiation propagation in cubic
nonlinear medium with linear birefringence |
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11:45 |
H.Y.Wang:
Laser Shaping and Efficient Proton Acceleration by a Plasma Lens |
J. Bromage:
Optical Coatings for Ultra-Intense OPCPA Systems |
M. Krishnamurthy:
Ionization Dynamics of Laser Driven Nanoclusters |
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12:00 |
S. Steinke:
Stable Laser Ion Acceleration in the Light Sail Regime |
E. Chowdhury:
Pulse-width Dependent femto-second Laser Damage Threshold Measurements for Substrate Etched Pulse Compression Gratings |
G. Mourou (Invited): Laser-Based High Energy Physics - Exa-Zettawatt Peak Power and Megawatt Average Power Pursuit |
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12:15 |
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V. Samarkin:
Large Scale Deformable Mirror Based on Bimorph and Stack Actuators |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
13:30 |
A. Sergeev (Invited):
Prospects of PEARL-10 and XCELS Laser Facilities |
T. Jeong (Invited):
1.5-PW TiSapphire Laser System and High Field Science |
J. Hein:
High-Energy Diode-Pumped Burst-Mode fs-Laser with Cryogenic Cooling |
Excursion to Histria |
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13:45 |
L. Mikheev:
Hybrid (solid or gas) blue-green fs laser systems - proof-of-principle experiments |
14:00 |
P. Yuan:
Tunable high-power femtosecond mid-infrared pulses generated by a long-wavelength-seeded OPCPA |
C. Le Blanc (Invited):
Apollon-10P: Status and implementation |
A. Ricci:
XPW Generation of high-fidelity few-cycle pulses at 2 μm |
14:15 |
Y. Fujimoto:
Development on ultra-broad band high intense laser propagation optics for exa-watt laser |
I. Musgrave:
Development of novel optical probes for the Vulcan Petawatt Facility |
14:30 |
J. Kawanaka:
Conceptual design of Sub-Exa-Watts OPCPA System |
M. Kalashnikov:
Temporal contrast above 10^(11) with Double CPA technique |
Y. Nakata:
Current Status of the LFEX Laser |
14:45 |
Z. Wei:
Generation of high contrast 1053nm laser pulse based on non-collinear optical parametric amplification |
H. Kiriyama:
Generation of high-contrast, petawatt-class laser pulses with a OPCPA or Ti:sapphire hybrid laser system using a double CPA and... |
I. Doudet:
Adaptive Optics loop implementation and optimization for petawatt laser facilities |
15:00 |
L. Veisz (Invited):
Sub-5-fs Multi-TW OPCPA Development |
W. Leemans (Invited):
The BELLA system and facility |
S. Bahk:
An Anamorphically Imaged Programmable Beam-Shaping System for High-Power Lasers |
15:15 |
H. Furuse:
1 J, 100 Hz, Sub-ns DPSSL Development Using Cryogenic YbYAG or YAG Composite Ceramics for OPCPA |
15:30 |
Coffee break |
C. Simon-Boisson:
Technology breakthroughs for high repetition rate PetaWatt Ti:Sa Lasers |
Coffee break |
15:45 |
Coffee break |
16:00 |
Z. Sheng (Invited) :
Upper limit power for self-guided propagation of intense
lasers in plasma |
R. Lopez-Martens (Invited):
Attosecond pulses from plasma mirrors |
16:15 |
F. Giambruno:
Design and realization of a spectral filter to compensate spectral gain distortions in Apollon-10P TiSa amplifiers |
16:30 |
T. Ditmire (Invited):
Toward the Development of Rep-Rated Multi-PW Lasers |
Z. Wei:
High contrast PW Tisapphire laser with a combined scheme of DCPA and NOPA |
O. Delmas:
Oscillator-regenerative laser cavity frequencies tuning for efficient Soft-X-ray Laser Operation |
16:45 |
S. Banerjee:
DiPOLE - A Scalable Pump Laser for Multi-Hz Petawatt Systems |
A. Rousse:
Laser-based Betatron and Compton x-ray beams |
17:00 |
A. Klenke:
Towards ultra-high intensity pulses with fiber laser systems |
J. Biegert:
cycle, 160 kHz, 2W, CEP stable mid-IR OPCPA |
D. Ros:
LASERIX : an european intense laser facility for devlopments of soft X-Ray lasers and EUV sources for applications |
17:15 |
E. Gaul:
The Texas Petawatt Laser and current Experiments |
C. Dorrer:
High-Damage-Threshold Beam Shaping Using Optically Patterned Liquid Crystal Devices |
D. Ursescu:
X-Ray Lasers Pumped With 1 Long and 2 Short Pulses |
17:30 |
M. Galimberti:
Technology Development for Multi-PW OPCPA Based Laser System |
J. Zuegel:
Design and Status of an Energy Upgrade to the Multi-Terawatt Laser at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics |
A. Bashinov:
Plasma-Field Structures in Ultra-Relativistic Circularly Polarized Laser-Plasma Interactions due to Radiation |
17:45 |
R. Li (Invited):
SIOM 10PW laser system development |
S. Montant:
Phase-stabilized few-cycle optical parametric amplification in the mid-infrared with 10 μJ at 100 kHz |
V. Yanovsky:
High-aspect-ratio Plasma Target for Raman Backscattering in Exawatt Laser Development |
18:00 |
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I. Will:
Scaling the pulse energy of CPA Thin Disk lasers to the Joule level |
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