Petawatt and exawatt class lasers worldwide

Danson CN, Haefner C, Bromage J, Butcher T, Chanteloup JCF, Chowdhury EA, Galvanauskas A, Gizzi LA, Hein J, Hillier D, Hopps NW, Kato Y, Khazanov EA, Kodama R, Korn G, Li R, Li Y, Limpert J, Ma J, Nam CH, Neely D, Papadopoulos D, Penman RR, Qian L, Rocca JJ, Shaykin AA, Siders CW, Spindloe C, Szatmari S, Trines RMGM, Zhu J, Zhu P, Zuegel JD (2019)

Publication Type: Journal article, Review article

Publication year: 2019

Journal

DOI: 10.1017/hpl.2019.36

Abstract

In the 2015 review paper 'Petawatt Class Lasers Worldwide' a comprehensive overview of the current status of high-power facilities of }200∼\text{TW}$]]> was presented. This was largely based on facility specifications, with some description of their uses, for instance in fundamental ultra-high-intensity interactions, secondary source generation, and inertial confinement fusion (ICF). With the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics being awarded to Professors Donna Strickland and Gerard Mourou for the development of the technique of chirped pulse amplification (CPA), which made these lasers possible, we celebrate by providing a comprehensive update of the current status of ultra-high-power lasers and demonstrate how the technology has developed. We are now in the era of multi-petawatt facilities coming online, with 100 PW lasers being proposed and even under construction. In addition to this there is a pull towards development of industrial and multi-disciplinary applications, which demands much higher repetition rates, delivering high-average powers with higher efficiencies and the use of alternative wavelengths: mid-IR facilities. So apart from a comprehensive update of the current global status, we want to look at what technologies are to be deployed to get to these new regimes, and some of the critical issues facing their development.

Involved external institutions

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory United Kingdom (GB) Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) / 광주과학기술원 Korea, Republic of (KR) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory United States (USA) (US) University of Michigan United States (USA) (US) Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) / 中国科学院 China (CN) Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR) / Akademie věd České republiky (AVČR) Czech Republic (CZ) Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) United Kingdom (GB) Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Germany (DE) Shanghai Jiao Tong University / 上海交通大学 China (CN) University of Rochester (UR) United States (USA) (US) University of Paris 4 - Paris-Sorbonne / Université paris IV Paris-Sorbonne France (FR) Russian Academy of Sciences / Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (RAS) Russian Federation (RU) Ohio State University United States (USA) (US) The Graduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries Japan (JP) Osaka University Japan (JP) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) / National Research Council of Italy Italy (IT) Colorado State University United States (USA) (US) University of Szeged / József Attila Tudományegyetem Szeged Hungary (HU)

How to cite

APA:

Danson, C.N., Haefner, C., Bromage, J., Butcher, T., Chanteloup, J.-C.F., Chowdhury, E.A.,... Zuegel, J.D. (2019). Petawatt and exawatt class lasers worldwide. High Power Laser Science and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2019.36

MLA:

Danson, Colin N., et al. "Petawatt and exawatt class lasers worldwide." High Power Laser Science and Engineering (2019).

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