ADONIS

From 1st January 2018, the new project of the ELI Beamlines research centre ADONIS has been launched. The name is an abbreviation derived from the title Advanced research using high intensity laser produced photons and particles. The project will run until the end of October 2022 and is funded by the Operational Program Research, Development and Education from the Excellence Research Challenge.

ISAC 2017

The commissioning of the laser system L3-HAPLS at ELI Beamlines has started

The commissioning of the laser system L3-HAPLS at ELI Beamlines has started

Over the past few days, the physical installation of the L3-HAPLS (Advanced Petawatt Laser System) was successfully finished. The L3-HAPLS was delivered from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to ELI Beamlines in Dolní Břežany in June this year. Since the end of September, a joint team of scientific and technical staff from LLNL, the ELI Beamlines center of the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences has worked intensively on the installation of the laser. After the connection and commissioning of cooling, vacuum, electrical and electronic systems of the laser, the first part of the laser chain has been put into operation. The first upgraded part of the L3-HAPLS system consists of an oscillator and a pump laser, which provide pulses with energy of 2 J and a repetition frequency of 10 Hz.

The largest vacuum compressor in the Czech Republic belongs to ELI Beamlines

On November 1st, 2017, the vacuum compressor of PW laser pulses for the laser system L3 (one of the four lasers at ELI Beamlines) arrived in Dolní Břežany from Brno. It is the largest vacuum opto-mechanical unit ever designed and manufactured in the Czech Republic.

ELI Beamlines was visited by the Israeli Minister Ofir Akunis

The Israeli Minister of Science, Technology and Space Ofir Akunis with his delegation visited the ELI Beamlines and HiLASE laser centres in Dolni Brezany on the 26th of June 2017.

‘Citissimus, Maximus, Brevissimus, Minimus’

ELI Beamlines researcher presents an extensive overview on the beginning of a new atto-nano physics age.

Dosimetry devices for the ELIMAIA beamline have been developed by INFN-LNS

On February 9th, 2017 a crucial milestone for the development of the ELIMED dosimetry section of the ELIMAIA beamline was achieved by the INFN-LNS team. ELIMED is the beam transport and dosimetry section of the ELI Multidisciplinary Applications for laser-Ion Acceleration (ELIMAIA) and represents a key technology for the entire ELI-Beamlines facility since it will enable users to perform pre-clinical research for future applications in cancer therapy, such as biological cell irradiation with short bunches of protons (not available at conventional facilities) accelerated by the HAPLS PW-class, 10 Hz laser.

Lasers for ultra-clean energy production

The Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences has gained another patent. The research team responsible for this result belongs to the ELI Beamlines research centre and this is the first patent application in the history of this project.

The 14th issue of the ELI Beamlines Newsletter is here

Livermore meets key milestone for delivery of world’s highest average power petawatt laser system

The High-Repetition-Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System (HAPLS), being developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), recently completed a significant milestone: demonstration of continuous operation of an all diode-pumped, high-energy femtosecond petawatt laser system.