First International School on Laser Applications

14 Oct 2012, 18:00 → 19 Oct 2012, 14:00 Europe/Paris

GANIL

Carsten Welsch, Nathalie Lecesne (Unknown)

Lasers are crucial for the successful operation and continuous optimization of particle accelerators. To address this LA³NET is organising an international school on laser applications that is open for participants from within and outside the network.

The school will follow the successful format pioneered in the DITANET project. Renowned lecturers will complement partner expertise to cover topics such as:

• Introduction to lasers and accelerators,
• Beam shaping,
• Laser ion sources,
• Laser acceleration,
• Laser based beam diagnostics,
• Industrial applications.

In addition to the lectures there will be study groups, poster sessions and two evening seminars on major international initiatives in the laser and light sources field. There will also be opportunities for discussion and networking at evening events and during an excursion on the Wednesday afternoon.

The school will be hosted by GANIL, France and organized by the LA³NET consortium.

Several scholarships for early stage researchers outside the network will be available. The scholarships will cover the cost of the school but recipients will have to arrange and pay for their own travel costs to the event.
The deadline for receiving scholarship application forms (see Material) is 17 August 2012 and all applicants will be informed of the decision on awarding them a scholarship by 31 August. The decision of the project panel will be final.

Scholarship Application Form Scholarship Application Form

School Poster School Poster

Sunday, 14 October

18:00 → 20:00 Registration and Welcome of the Participants

20:00 → 21:30 Dinner

Monday, 15 October

08:30 → 09:30 Welcome / Introduction

Speakers: Prof. Carsten Welsch (University of Liverpool), Dr Marek Lewitowicz (Deputy Director, GANIL), Dr Nathalie Lecesne (GANIL)

Slides

• GANIL_Marek_Lewitowicz
• programme
• Welcome_School_Carsten_Welsch

09:30 → 10:30 Introduction to Lasers I

• Laser fundamentals • Optical resonators • Gaussian Beams • Laser Pumping • Multimode lasing

Speaker: Prof. Luis Roso (CLPU)

Slides LuisRosoLA3NET.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Introduction to Lasers II

Introduction to atomic physics for laser spectroscopy including: • Line broadening • Different spectroscopy techniques, incl. non-linear • The search of ionization schemes • Hyperfine splitting for isomer selection and nuclear physics measurements

Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Billowes (Universtiy of Manchester)

Slides Intro_to_lasers_2_-Jon_Billowes.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Beam Shaping

Laser beam transport covering: • Optical transport theory, how to preserve laser paramaters • Experimental feedback on how to handle optics • High beam power transport, remote control • Losses, things not to do, some laser safety considerations

Speaker: Dr Martha Divall (PSI)

Slides beam_shaping_Marta_Divall.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:30 Introduction to accelerators

• Brief history of accelerators • Electron and ion sources, linear accelerators, synchrotron • Beam properties: o Equation of motion o Concept of beam emittance o Beam size, bunch length and other parameters to be measured • rf cavity/laser analogies

Speaker: Prof. Carsten Welsch (University of Liverpool)

Slides Introduction_to_Particle_Accelerators_Carsten_Welsch

15:30 → 16:30 Application of electron accelerators – principles of free electron lasers

Speaker: Prof. Allan Gillespie (University of Dundee)

Slides FELs_Allan_Gillespie.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:00 Questions & Answers

Guided by Prof. Luis Roso, CLPU

18:30 → 20:00 Welcome Reception

Cocktail / Dinner

Tuesday, 16 October

08:30 → 09:30 Characterisation of the laser output

• What properties are required (for different applications)? Quality definition. • Wavelength and spectrum • temporal/spatial profile • Power • cw/pulsed lasers

Speaker: Dr David Walsh (University of Dundee)

Slides David_Walsh_Characterisation_of_Laser_Light_for_web.pdf

09:30 → 10:30 Laser Ion Sources I

Speaker: Mr Bruce Marsh (CERN)

Slides LA3NETRILIS_ion_sources_Bruce_Marsh.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Laser Ion Sources II

Speaker: Mr Bruce Marsh (CERN)

Slides LA3NETRILIS_ion_sources_Bruce_Marsh.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Laser Acceleration I

• Introduction of laser-plasma electron acceleration • Basic theoretical background: o Plasma wave excitation o Wavebreaking o Electron dynamics in plasma o Electron injection method

Speaker: Dr Arie Irman (HZDR)

Slides Laser_acceleration_Arie_Irman.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:30 Laser Acceleration II

Recent progress in laser-plasma electron acceleration experiment

Speaker: Dr Arie Irman (HZDR)

Slides Laser_acceleration_Arie_Irman.pdf

15:30 → 16:30 Study Session

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:00 Non-linear optics techniques in laser-accelerator systems

Speaker: Dr David Walsh (University of Dundee)

Slides David_Walsh_NLO_for_web.pdf

19:00 → 20:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 17 October

08:30 → 09:30 Beam Diagnostics using lasers I

• Transverse beam profile measurements • Laser wire scanners • Quality of incoming beam • Current limitations/R&D efforts internationally

Speaker: Dr Laura Corner (John Adams Institute - Oxford)

Slides Beam_diagnostics_Laura_Corner_v2.pdf

09:30 → 10:30 Beam Diagnostics using lasers II

• Importance of longitudinal beam diagnostics in accelerators and advanced light sources • Longitudinal diagnostics – A comparison of experimental techniques • Determining the detailed bunch temporal profile using electro-optic (EO) techniques • Laser ‘metamaterials’ processing for EO techniques

Speaker: Prof. Allan Gillespie (University of Dundee)

Slides Gillespie_-_GANIL_-_EO_techniques.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Seminar on X-ray FEL sources.

Speaker: Dr Luc Patthey (PSI)

Slides LucPatthey_Xray_FEL.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Laser materials

CIMAP laser development group Current research including: • Solid state lasers • Fibre lasers

Speaker: Mr Hervé Gilles (CIMAP)

Slides LaserMaterials.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 17:00 Visit Ganil

19:00 → 20:30 Dinner

21:00 → 23:00 Explore Caen by night : 2h guided tour

2h Caen guided tour by night. Travel GANIL-Caen by tram.

Thursday, 18 October

08:30 → 09:30 Laser optical clocks and accelerator timing systems

• Challenges in ultra-fast timing systems • Synchronization • Current state-of-the-art (ideally with facility examples) / future R&D program

Speaker: Dr Trina Thakker (STFC)

Slides T._Thakker.pdf

09:30 → 10:30 Optical laser requirements, developments and simulations at the European XFEL

• Optical laser requirements and developments for the X-Ray experiments at the European XFEL • Simulations of fibre and parametric amplifiers • Other aspects of ultrafast lasers

Speaker: Dr Max Lederer (European XFEL GmbH)

Slides Lederer_XFEL_optical_laser_req._dev_&_simulations.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Ultrashort pulsed lasers

• Fundamental properties of short light pulses (spectral coherence, high intensities) • Mathematical description of short laser pulses and basic pulse distortion/shaping effects (dispersion, chirps) • Generation and measurement of short pulses • Nonlinear-optical light conversion to other spectral (e.g. XUV) and temporal (e.g. attosecond) ranges • Some selected experimental applications

Speaker: Dr Thomas Pfeiffer (MPIK, Heidelberg, Germany)

Slides tpfeifer-UltrafastLasersLaSnet.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Study Session

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:30 Poster Session and Industry Showcase: Posters submitted available in Contribution list

15:30 → 16:30 Steering Committee Meeting

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:00 Seminar ELI installation: Taking European research to the next level

Speaker: Prof. Ken Ledingham (Strathclyde University)

Slides Laser_Nuclear_reactions_high_temp_Ken_Ledingham.pdf

17:00 → 18:00 Steering Committee Meeting

19:30 → 22:30 Banquet Dinner

Dress Code : Smart Casual -
Dinner including LA³NET Prize 2012 presentation and prizes for best poster(s)

Friday, 19 October

08:30 → 09:30 Supervisory Board Annual meeting

09:30 → 10:30 Supervisory Board Annual meeting: introduction to ESRs

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 Industry I : What's in it and how do we get there - industrial applications of laser acceleration

• Industrial applications of laser acceleration • Examples of today's successful applications of accelerators in industry • The requirements for achieving controlled and reproducible charged particle beams • State-of-the-art beam transport and beam diagnostic components and their applicability in future compact laser acceleration based systems

Speaker: Dr Arnd Baurichter (Danfysik)

11:30 → 12:00 Cooperation between industry and research institutes

• Cosylab is a spin-off from a research institute • What are the less obvious but still important reasons for cooperation? • our community is used to cooperation: even when the industrial company is a suppliers and the institute is the customer • joint-ventures between institutes and industry • a different kind of of cooperation: not just on research, but also to gain market knowhow and find new employees

Speaker: Mr Mark Plesko (Cosylab)

Slides Plesko_Cooperation_industry_research.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Industry II : Solutions to the photonics industry: from a customer s idea to an off-the-shelf product

• Thorlabs’ core competencies • Generation, collection, and development of new product ideas using an open forum • The product development process: How a worldwide team of engineers, physicists, web programmers and designers transfers a product idea into a catalogue product • Brief insight into the logistics required to provide the service of same-day shipment

Speaker: Dr Julien Vigroux (Thorlabs)

Slides Thorlabs_Overview_Julien_Vigroux.pdf

12:30 → 13:00 Challenges in Industry / School Conclusion

• The provision of laser products adapted for specific market needs • Development, manufacture and supply

Speaker: Dr Jonas Hellström

Slides Hellstrom_Cobolt_Industry_Challenges.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch