EXTREME LASER LIGHT. IZEST C3 Cascaded compression Conversion Damage less optics

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1 EXTREME LASER LIGHT A new Paradigm in Fundamental Physics and Applications IZEST C3 Cascaded compression Conversion Damage less optics The discovery of this particle is potentially the beginning of another road, which is to explore what lies beyond the Standard Model - Peter Higgs Gerard Mourou IZEST Ecole Polytechnique Paris France 150th Anniversary of Politecnico di Milano Gerard Mourou Global Science I realized there would be many applications for the laser, but it never occurred to me that we'd get such power from it! - Charles H. Townes

2 From the Atomic to Subatomic World

3 Greetings from Michel Spiro President of CERN Council As President of the CERN Council, I would like to express our interest and warm support in developing new ultra high gradient techniques ofparticle acceleration. Plasma acceleration seems a very promising avenue. The IZEST project is a bold and fierce adventure. It will open the way to a new generation of ultra high energy and compact accelerator and give access to totally new physics like probing quantum vacuum and testing the basic laws of physics. I wish great success to the IZEST conference and to the IZEST project. Best wishes, Michel

4 WORLD MAP

5 IZEST 2012 Laser Ascent to High Energy Physics

6 Extreme Light Road Map LMJ/NIF, 2MJ, 3B Vacuum Polarization E p =m p c 2 MJ kj XCELS IZEST C 3 TeV GeV ELI, kj.3 B E e =m 0 c 2 J MeV mj ev ICUIL 2012 Mourou

7 Why this obsession for Peak Power? Laser Peak power provides: o The Highest E fields to explore vacuum nonlinearity, dark matter, o Generation of high energy Particles from visible to TeV and possibly PeV o Shortest light bursts visible to Gamma Ray (as to zs) o Highest temperatures o Highest acceleration g ICUIL 2012 Mourou

8 IZEST a New Paradigm in Laser and High Energy Physics IZEST is based on large scale facilities developped over the past 20 years for Laser fusion IZEST is based on the large laser fusion community, High Field Science, High energy fundamental Physics Huge body of work in Laser Ultrashort Plasma Physics, Ultrahigh Intensity

9 IZEST a Laser Technology Driver Highest Peak Power will demand higher damage components and Plasma Optic. Project C3 from J/cm2 to 10kJ/cm2 Laser Acceleration 100GeV single stage to reach TeV- PeV level Scientific and Societal Applications will require much higher and efficient average power Project ICAN from single Watt to Megawatt

10 IZEST a New Paradigm in Laser and High Energy Physics IZEST is based on large scale facilities developped over the past 20 years for Laser fusion IZEST is based on the large laser fusion community, High Field Science, High energy fundamental Physics Huge body of work in Laser Ultrashort Plasma Physics, Ultrahigh Intensity

11 Extreme Light Road Map LMJ/NIF, 2MJ, 3B Vacuum Polarization E p =m p c 2 MJ kj XCELS IZEST C 3 TeV GeV ELI, kj.3 B E e =m 0 c 2 J MeV mj ev ICUIL 2012 Mourou

12 Participant Council 12 November 2012 Strathclyde University Glasgow Scotland - UK How to reach IZEST s objectives 1 Forming a tight community, doing joint work, writing joint grant, promoting then, using website, workshop, conference seminars 2 Writing a good Scientific Case

13 Organization Chart - Provisional Financial & Administra ve coordinator FAC - C. Sarrazin European Commission Par cipant Council PaC Steering Commi ee COPIL Public Rela on tbd Director, G. Mourou Deputy Director, T. Tajima Execu ve Manager tbd Secretary tbd Scien fic Advisory Board SAB Technology transfer tbc A S I A 100 Gev PM : K. Nakajima WP1 - Mnagement WP2 - Guiding WP3 - Injec on WP4 - Simula on WP5 - Diagnos cs WP6 - Control WP7 - Petal integra on WP8 - Relevance to PETAL CAEP (*) APRI ILE KEK LeCosPa (*) LLMS-ICR C3 PM : J. Fuchs WP1 - Management WP2 - plasma mirrors WP3 - amplifica on SBS WP4 - amplifica on SRS WP5 - self-compression WP6 - OPCPA WP7 - Target WP8 - Diagnos cs KPSI SIOM IHIP N O R T H A M E R I C A FERMILAB CUOS TCHILS (*) Dark Fields PM : K. Homma WP1 - Management WP2 - Light Ma er through Wall (LIL or LMJ) WP3 - Degenerate Four-Wave mixing LLNL PULIP INRS E U R O P E CERN Strathclyde University ELI-NP ICAN -Interna onal High Average Power laser and applica ons -Coordinator : G. Mourou PM : B. Brocklesby WP1 - Management WP21 - Fiber laser components WP22 - Fiber laser systems WP3 - Applica ons WP4 - Other laser solu on to make high energy WP5 - Industrial involvment WP6 - Public rela ons WP7 - Socio economic al impact JAI HHU JINR (*) GSI IAP CLPU NRNU - MEPhI (*)Pending

14 The Name of the Game; How to compress 100kJ, 5ns level Light Pulse into ~20fs pulse with good efficiency? G. Mourou, Ultrafast Optics

15 Ultra High peak Power Generation 1985 was CPA, D. Strickland, G. Mourou, Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses. Opt. Commun. 56, (1985). OPCPA, A. Dubietis et al., Powerful femtosecond pulse generation by chirped and stretched pulse parametric amplification in BBO crystal. Opt. Commun. 88, 433 (1992). Similar to CPA in concept, it relies on the amplification of light by Optical Parametric Amplification. It is used for broadband, Backwards Raman Amplification(BRA) V. M. Malkin, G. Shvets, and N. J. Fisch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4448(1999). Backward Brillouin Scattering, J. Fuchs et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2010) G. Mourou, Ultrafast Optics

16 Backward Raman Amplification L Cell = ct pump 2 Backwards Raman Amplification(BRA) V. M. Malkin, G. Shvets, and N. J. Fisch, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4448(1999). Demands the shortest cell hence the shortest pump pulse!! G. Mourou, Ultrafast Optics

17 How to compress 100kJ, 5ns level Light Pulse into ~20fs pulse? CPA no good damage threshold for broadband grating of the order of 100mJ/cm2 Grating area in the 100m2 too large, too expensive. T th (20fs)=.1J, T th (20ps)= 5J Demands to operate with the longest pulse. OPCPA is faced with the same problem. Raman, Brillouin Compression need shortest possible cell given by the T pump =2L/c. Demands to operate with the shortest Pulse in contradiction with the CPA. Conclusion: none of the conventional techniques can do it alone. They need to work in concert. G. Mourou, Ultrafast Optics

18 Cascaded Compression Conversion C 3 G. A. Mourou a,n. J. Fisch b,*, V.M Malkin b, Z. Toroker b, E.A. Khazanov c, A.M. Sergeev c, T. Tajima d, B. Le Garrec, Exawatt Zettawatt Generation and Applications, Optics Com. Acceped for Publication,, G. Mourou, Ultrafast Optics

19 Cascaded Compression Conversion C 3 = CPA+OPCPA+BRA G. A. Mourou a,n. J. Fisch b,*, V.M Malkin b, Z. Toroker b, E.A. Khazanov c, A.M. Sergeev c, T. Tajima d, B. Le Garrec, Exawatt Zettawatt Generation and Applications, Optics Com. Accepted for Publication,, G. Mourou, Ultrafast Optics

20 Beam Combining G. Mourou, Ultrafast Optics

21 5-10 kj/cm 2 Damage Threshold Optics 100kJ~ 3cm diameter G. Mourou, Ultrafast Optics

22 Participant Council 12 November 2012 Strathclyde University Glasgow Scotland - UK Raman vs. Brillouin Backward Scattering Raman Backward scattering Brillouin Backward scattering

23 Participant Council 12 November 2012 Strathclyde University Glasgow Scotland - UK COMMUNICATION ASPECTS Cathy Sarrazin Administrative & Financial coordinator

24 Participant Council 12 November 2012 Strathclyde University Glasgow Scotland - UK Page «Science» - Storage of the publications, patents & highlights related to IZEST - To be utilized by us in view of applications for fundings, annual reports,

25 Participant Council 12 November 2012 Strathclyde University Glasgow Scotland - UK Pages «IZEST Events» / «Latest news» 1/ Past and upcoming events Summary of all the happenings within IZEST in chronological order 2/ IZEST Events / latest news The same than above but sorted out per items

26 Extreme Light Road Map Vacuum Polarization C 3 G. Mourou, Ultrafast Optics

27 Laser-Based High Energy and Fundamental Physics: Exawatt to Zettawatt IZEST XCELS+ELI LMJ, NIF G. Mourou, Ultrafast Optics

28 Futur Event April 26 IZEST-XCELS June CERN ICAN July LLNL IZEST_Livermore November Tokyo IZEST _Asia