ELI-Beamlines facility outline

Bedrich Rus Institute of Physics v.v.i., Prague

ELI-Beamlines Scientific Challenges Workshop, Prague, 26-27 April 2010

ELI-Beamlines: one of the designed ELI pillars

Attosecond pillar
Attosecond XUV/X-ray physics
Applications in material sciences and biology

Beamlines pillar

High-brightness sources of X-rays & particles

Molecular & biomedical sciences, particle acceleration, dense plasma physics, exotic physics

Photonuclear pillar

Laser-induced nuclear physics

Photonuclear science and applications

Site to be determined after 2012

High-intensity development

Exawatt-class laser technology

High-intensity laser technologies for frontier physical research

ELI-Beamlines mission
1. Generation of femtosecond secondary sources of radiation and particles
- XUV and X-ray sources (monochromatic and broadband) - Accelerated electrons (~5 GeV 10 Hz rep-rate, ~40 GeV low rep-rate), protons (~400 MeV 10 Hz rep-rate, ~3 GeV low-rep-rate) and ions - Gamma-ray sources (broadband)

2. Programmatic applications of the femtosecond secondary sources

- Medical research including proton therapy - Molecular, biomedical and material sciences - Physics of dense plasmas, WDM, laboratory astrophysics

3. High-field physics experiments with focused intensities 1023-1024 Wcm-2

- Exotic plasma physics (e.g. electron-positron pair plasma), non-linear QED

4. Participation in prototyping technologies for the high-intensity pillar

Compression & coherent superposition of multi-10-PW ultrashort pulses

Activities in the proposal for funding: balance between fundamental science and applications

Science Case in the ELI-Beamline proposal

Research Activity 1

Lasers generating repetition-rate ultrashort pulses and multi-petawatt peak powers

Research Activity 2
X-ray sources driven by repetition-rate ultrashort laser pulses

Tomas Mocek

Research Activity 3
Particle acceleration by lasers

Daniele Margarone / Jan Prokupek

Applications in molecular, biomedical, and material sciences

Research Activity 4 Research Activity 5 Research Activity 6

High-field physics and theory

Libor Juha

Laser plasma and high-energy-density physics

Jiri Limpouch

Karel Rohlena

Parameters of the focused laser pulses

200 mJ / 10 fs 10 J / 20 fs 50 J / 25 fs 300 J / 30 fs

1 kHz 10 Hz 10 Hz <0.1 Hz

20 TW 500 TW 2 PW 10 PW

6x1020 Wcm-2 (2 micron focus) 3x1021 Wcm-2 (5 micron focus) 1022 Wcm-2 (5 micron focus) up to 3x1023 Wcm-2 (<3 micron focus)

ELI system 1 kHz laser design: implementation layout Atto user / test 5 fs XUV / X-ray beams
5 J / 5 fs
PFS chain
Thin-disk DPSSL pump Oscillator + preamp 5 fs

>1 PW

facility
Solid surface HHG

Freq. downconversion 700-900 nm

0.1-1 J / <1 Hz

Ti:Sapphire Booster + final amps 300 J / 15-25 fs

Synchronized Atto/multi-PW user facility 10-20 PW

Coherent multiplexing

Booster amp 1
PFS technology DPSSL pump

2x0.2J / 10 fs/ 1 kHz

Power amp (2x) OPCPA 10J beamline
DPSSL pump

10 J / 10Hz

2 oscillators PFS front end 1 kHz

Oscillator + preamp 5 fs

XUV / X-ray generation e- and p+ acceleration Plasma physics WDM High-intensity Test & user facility

Booster amp 2
PFS technology DPSSL pump

< 6 fs

Power amp (2x) OPCPA 50J beamline

DPSSL pump

50 J / 10Hz

1J / 15 fs / 100 Hz
Booster amp 3
PFS technology DPSSL pump

BACKUP Power amps Ti:Sapph 50J beamline

Flashlamp pump

50 J / 0.1Hz

1J / 15fs / 100 Hz

10 PW block (2x) OPCPA or Ti:Sapph

Flashlamp pump

300 J / 0.1Hz 2x10 PW 3x 10 PW

2x oscillator + front end

Oscillator + preamp 5 fs

5 fs 100 mJ DPSSL-pumped OPCPA

Boosters
3x (A1 - A2) Ti:Sapph >4J/10Hz

Power amplifiers
3x (A3 - A4 - A5) Ti:Sapph >300 J

100 TW

1 PW

Photonuclear Research & auxiliary facilities

ELI Beamlines Facility laser

Laser system
Booster amp 1 PFS technology DPSSL pump Oscillators + PFS preamps 1 kHz

Experimental areas
Applications
(molecular, biomedical & material sciences)

2x 200 mJ /1 kHz/10fs
Power amp (2x) OPCPA 10J beamline DPSSL pump

10 J / 10Hz

XUV / X-ray generation

50 J / 10Hz
Beam/pulse switchyard

10 mJ/ 1kHz/ < 6fs

Booster amp 2 PFS technology DPSSL pump

Power amp (2x) OPCPA 50J beamline DPSSL pump BACKUP Power amps Ti:Sapph >50J beamline Flashlamp pump

1-2J / 100 Hz / 15 fs

e- and p+ acceleration

50 J / 0.1Hz

Plasma physics WDM

Booster amp 3 PFS technology DPSSL pump

1-2J / 100 Hz/ 15 fs

10 PW block (2x) OPCPA or Ti:Sapph Flashlamp pump

300 J / 0.1Hz

High-intensity test & user facility Exotic physics

Technologies of the repetition rate pump lasers

Thin disk pump technology
Developed by MPQ/LMU/MBI ELI: scaled to >kW average power - in multi-kHz range - in multi-100 Hz range

Multislab pump technology

Prototyped at LLNL (Mercury 60J/10Hz), developed at RAL ELI: development of 500 J/10 Hz large aperture cryogenic amplifiers

Design of 25 kW head

Collaboration with STFC (Vulcan 10PW) and ILE (Apollon 1 PW) on technology development

Beamline Facility: compression of 10-PW pulses

Compressor design for Vulcan 10PW

courtesy of John Collier, STFC

Budget and timeline

Total investment: 268.8 mil. Euro

Out of which laser technologies

Timeline:

171.2 mil. Euro

October 1, 2009 ELI-Preparation Phase Steering Committee gives the Czech Rep mandate to implement the Beamline facility Jan 29, 2010 June 2010 End 2010 Legally effective zoning permit to build ELI-Beamlines issued Contract on ELI-Beamlines funding in Czech Rep signed Request for structural funding sent to EU Official approval of EU expected

2011 2015
End 2015

Construction, development & installation of the laser systems

Commissioning

Beamline Facility infrastructure design

1st floor: Pump systems

Ground floor: Lasers Underground floor: Target areas

ELI Beamline Facility infrastructure

1st floor: Pump systems

High-I section Beamlines 50 J

Ground floor: Lasers

Oscillator & booster amps

Beamlines 10 J

High-I compressors

Exotic physics

Plasma physics
Material and biological applications X-ray sources

Underground floor: Target areas

and high-intensity pulse compression

Beamline Facility infrastructure

Electron & proton acceleration experiments, high-field physics: additional shielding (design in progress)

Beamline Facility: architects impression

Recent progress in the technical design

Works on the Building documentation (most of 2010)
Numerical assessment of the bulk shielding of walls and floors Local shielding & beam dumps for particle & gamma sources Computation of vibrations of the laser building EMP shielding

Laser and technology design works

Design and optimization of cryogenic flow in multislab amplifiers (design and testing of a hydrodynamic prototype) Design of the central beam/pulse delivery system Front end & pulse synchronization design OPCPA baseline calculations Design of the central vacuum system Design of cryogenic circuits Design study of backbone control systems ..

Simulations using actual sources of vibration measured on the site

Vibration analysis of the laser building

RMS vertical displacement

RMS displacement (m)

Ground floor RMS vertical displacement chart

Vibration analysis of the laser building

RMS displacement (m)

RMS<1.2 microns: meets required specifications

Backbone beam / pulse distribution

One large (Meopta), about 30 SME companies relevant to ELI and applications: laser materials, optics, optical coatings, fine mechanics, vacuum technology, instrumentation, etc.

Involvement of industry

Location: Central Bohemia / south of Prague

Dolni Brezany

Area of future R&D centres south of Prague city, enjoyable surroundings Synergy with planned large biotechnology center BIOCEV (at 2 km distance) Direct connection to Prague outer ring and the European motorway network (3 hours to Berlin, 3.5 hours to Munich and Vienna, 4.5 hours to Budapest)

Celtic oppidum Zvist, one of the largest ones in Europe 6th century B.C. to 1st century A.D.

Connection to the past: Celtic settlement

Oppidum
Acropolis

ELI

Recent archaeological surveys discovered Neolithic settlement (about 3000 B.C.) in the Dolni Brezany site

Thank you for your attention!

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