Extreme Optics Workshop (ExOp)

Jun 15, 2026, 7:30 AM → Jun 17, 2026, 5:40 PM Europe/Bucharest

Mon, June 15

7:30 AM → 8:15 AM Transport from Hotel to ELI-NP

8:15 AM → 9:00 AM Registration

9:00 AM → 9:20 AM Opening Ceremony

9:20 AM → 11:50 AM Session 1 - PW to EW optics. sub-10 fs optics

9:20 AM Development of Extreme Optics

Speaker: Mikami Takuya

9:45 AM Beyond 100 petawatt laser and related technology developments

Speaker: Zhaoyang Li

10:10 AM SG-II-UP Petawatt Laser System: Performance Evaluation and Integration of Critical Optical Components

Speaker: Youen Jiang

10:35 AM Dispersive Optics a key element for femtosecond lasers

Speaker: Vladimir Pervak

11:00 AM Sub 10 fs optics characterisation for post-compression experiments

Speaker: Gabriel Bleotu

11:25 AM How Dispersive Optics Distort, and Sometimes Destroy, Your Laser Pulse

Speaker: Rosa Romero

11:50 AM → 12:50 PM Lunch

12:50 PM → 2:50 PM Session 2 - Fusion Optics

12:50 PM ELI Beamlines optics developments

Speaker: Daniel Kramer

1:15 PM High LIDT Coatings for Large Optics

Speaker: James Oliver

1:35 PM Manufacturing and characterization of large optics for laser-based fusion

Speaker: Henrik Ehlers

2:00 PM Lrge area optics: influence of defects on damage and loses

Speaker: Joshua McCauley

2:25 PM Very large ion beam sputtering coatings for high intensity lasers

Speaker: Kai Starke

2:50 PM → 3:10 PM Coffee Break

3:15 PM → 5:45 PM Session 3 - LIDT/High LIDT Optics

3:15 PM Multilayer dielectric coatings for high energy laser fusion drivers and their challenges to achieve long term operation without damage

Speaker: Carmen Menoni

3:40 PM Laser Damage Testing for Long-Term Reliability Assessment of High-Quality Optics under High-Energy and High-Average-Power Laser Operation

Speaker: Hitoki Yoneda

4:05 PM Laser Damage Characteristics of microstructured optical components

Speaker: Jinlong Zhang

4:30 PM Current challenges in high-power laser interactions with optical materials: fundamental mechanisms of damage and possible ways to maximize LIDT

Speaker: Nadezhda Bulgakova

4:55 PM Pushing the limits – Ion Beam Figuring

Speaker: David Schäfer

5:20 PM Ultrafast Laser Coatings for High-Power Laser Systems

Speaker: Hongfei Jiao

6:00 PM → 6:40 PM Transport from ELI-NP to Hotel

Tue, June 16

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Transport from Hotel to ELI-NP

9:00 AM → 11:05 AM Session 4 - Plasma Optics / Isolation

9:00 AM High throughput, renewable plasma mirrors and plasma mirror “fuses” based on ultrathin films of liquid crystal

Speaker: Douglass Schumacher

9:25 AM Operation of a double-plasma mirror telescope with the 10-PW HPLS at ELI-NP

Speaker: Katinka von Grafenstein

9:50 AM Gas optics for high power and high energy laser applications

Speaker: Yurina Michine

10:15 AM Plasma Transmission Gratings for High-Power Pulse Compression

Speaker: Matthew Edwards

10:40 AM High LIDT conductive coatings (ITO)

Speaker: Marco Jupe

11:05 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 12:45 PM Session 5 - Theoretical and Computational framework for laser damage

11:30 AM Towards Renewed ISO 21254 Standards for Laser-Induced Damage Threshold Testing

Speaker: Andrius Melninkaitis

11:55 AM Ultrafast laser damage to Optics: A comprehensive computational approach

Speaker: Enam Chowdhury

12:20 PM Atomistic simulations of optoelectronic properties of Si-TM-oxide materials for optical coatings

Speaker: Alexandru Nemnes

12:45 PM → 1:15 PM Lunch

1:15 PM → 2:40 PM Session 6 - Gratings

1:15 PM MLD Gratings for Extreme Lasers: Status and Trends

Speaker: Turan Erdogan

1:45 PM Progress in the latest pulse compressions gratings

Speaker: Yunxia Jin

2:15 PM Investigation of Multilayer Coating Design Related to Laser Damage Resistance of Chirped Mirrors for the Mid‑Infrared Region

Speaker: Muneo Sugiura

2:40 PM → 5:25 PM Poster Session + coffee break

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Transport from ELI-NP to Dinner

6:00 PM → 10:30 PM Festive Dinner

10:30 PM → 11:00 PM Transport from Dinner to Hotels

Wed, June 17

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Transport from Hotel to ELI-NP

9:00 AM → 11:30 AM Session 7 - Metrology and optics development in ELI and other facilities

9:00 AM High Power Optics Center at ELI-NP, Romania

Speaker: Ioan Dancus

9:25 AM Contamination problem of high power and high energy lasers

Speaker: Jitsuno Takahisa

9:50 AM Exploring Laser-Induced Damage Threshold in High-Intensity Optical Coatings

Speaker: Adrien Chauvain

10:15 AM Exploring Laser Induced Damage Threshold by electrical characterization of mirrors. Contamination effects and perspective for real-time monitoring

Speaker: Stefan Irimiciuc

10:40 AM Optimizing Performance of Focusing Parabolas

Speaker: Flemming Tinker

11:05 AM Development of laser interferometer for laser optics measurement

Speaker: Shijie Liu

11:30 AM → 11:50 AM Coffee Break

11:50 AM → 1:30 PM Session 8 - Nanolaminates

11:50 AM Dielectric quantized nanolaminates for high power laser optics

Speaker: Thomas Willemsen

12:15 PM Magnetron sputtered quantized nanolaminates and their application in laser optical coatings

Speaker: Stephan Waldner

12:40 PM Optical challenges in laser fusion drivers

Speaker: Gaia Barbierio

1:05 PM IBS metamaterials for high-LIDT fusion optics: materials, design concepts and performance overview

Speaker: Tobias Kruse

1:30 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch

2:15 PM → 2:30 PM ELI-NP presentation

Speaker: Ioan Dancus

2:30 PM → 3:20 PM Closing ceremony. Disscusions. Poster competition awards

3:20 PM → 5:30 PM Facility visit