Large Scale Laser: Possibility to next fondamental Research Infrastructure

The Intensity-Pulse Duration Conjecture: ELIs Lynchpin

ELI-NP: The Way Ahead Bucharest March 10, 2011

Grard Mourou, Institut de Lumire Extrme

28/02/11mourou CEA BruyereThe laser is 50!!

T. MaimanHughes Laboratory May 16 1960

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Atomic, molecular and optical (AMO)PhysicsAtom OpticsQuantum OpticsMetrologyCondensed-Matter PhysicsQuantum Information Science ( Quantum Computer)Chemistry

Relativistic/ultraRelativistic OpticsPlasma physicsAccelerator physicsNuclear PhysicsCosmologyNL QEDGeneral RelativityExtradimension physics

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3Mission:Study matter from atom to vacuum

4Until today Fundamental Research has been carried out and dominated by the Particle-based Paradigm: namely accelerator 28/02/11mourou CEA Bruyere520th Century, the Electron CenturyBasic Research Dominated by Massive and Charged Particles

28/02/11mourou CEA Bruyere21st Century; the Photon CenturyCould basic research be drivenby the massless and chargeless particles; Photons?

The First exemple is the Extreme Light Infrastructure ELI.?

28/02/11mourou CEA Bruyere21st Century; the Photon CenturyCould basic research be drivenby the massless and chargeless Photons??

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Large Scale Lasers: Could they become the Next Large Scale Fondamental Research Infrastructures? 28/02/11mourou CEA BruyereTool BoxeIncludes, large fields to induce large scale perturbations in Atoms, Nuclei and Vacuum.

To produce ultrashort pulses of radiation and particle to probe ultrafast events in atomic, nuclear physics, .., in femto, atto, zepto, yocto second regime.

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28/7/11G Mourou CEA BruyerePower/intensity and Pulse Duration are naturally linked together

To get high peak power you must decrease the pulse duration.To get short pulses you must increase the intensity

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The Pulse Duration-Intensity ConjectureG.A. Mourou and T. Tajima, More intense Shorter Pulse, SCIENCE VOL 331 , 7 , p 41JANUARY 2011

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Europe has decided to build the highest intensity laser ELI PW, 1mm~highest power laser today 2PW, 20cm

Few Facts about ELIPeak Power 200PWEnergy per Pulse 2kJPulse duration 10fsIntensity>1025W/cm2 OPCPA-CPA Ti:sapphire10 beams1shot /mnFirst Light 2017Linewidth =50TW28/7/11G Mourou CEA Bruyere14

Ultrashort pulses can provide Photons and Particles with Short and Synchronized Time Structure in the femtosecond, attosecond, zeptosecond regimes Visible Particules: ElectronsProtons, muons,High energy radiation: X, gamma ray

28/7/11G Mourou CEA Bruyere16ELI Nuclear PhysicsFundamental Physics of Perturbative and Non-perturbative High-Field QED: Pair creation, high energy g rays, birefringence of the quantum vacuum.High-resolution nuclear spectroscopy:Neutron halo-isomers, chaotic properties of nuclear states, nuclear potential landscpe, parity-violating meson-nucleon coupling, pygmy dipole resonance .Astrophysics of the r-, s-, p-processes in nucleosynthesis: masses of waiting point nuclei, pygmy resonance.

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