Extreme Optics Workshop (ExOp)

Europe/Bucharest
    • 07:30
      Transport from Hotel to ELI-NP
    • 08:15
      Registration
    • 1
      Opening Ceremony
    • Session 1 - PW to EW optics. sub-10 fs optics
      • 2
        Development of Extreme Optics
        Speaker: Mikami Takuya
      • 3
        Beyond 100 petawatt laser and related technology developments
        Speaker: Zhaoyang Li
      • 4
        SG-II-UP Petawatt Laser System: Performance Evaluation and Integration of Critical Optical Components
        Speaker: Youen Jiang
      • 5
        Dispersive Optics a key element for femtosecond lasers
        Speaker: Vladimir Pervak
      • 6
        Sub 10 fs optics characterisation for post-compression experiments
        Speaker: Gabriel Bleotu
      • 7
        How Dispersive Optics Distort, and Sometimes Destroy, Your Laser Pulse
        Speaker: Rosa Romero
    • 11:50
      Lunch
    • Session 2 - Fusion Optics
      • 8
        ELI Beamlines optics developments
        Speaker: Daniel Kramer
      • 9
        High LIDT Coatings for Large Optics
        Speaker: James Oliver
      • 10
        Manufacturing and characterization of large optics for laser-based fusion
        Speaker: Henrik Ehlers
      • 11
        Lrge area optics: influence of defects on damage and loses
        Speaker: Joshua McCauley
      • 12
        Very large ion beam sputtering coatings for high intensity lasers
        Speaker: Kai Starke
    • 14:50
      Coffee Break
    • Session 3 - LIDT/High LIDT Optics
      • 13
        Multilayer dielectric coatings for high energy laser fusion drivers and their challenges to achieve long term operation without damage
        Speaker: Carmen Menoni
      • 14
        Laser Damage Testing for Long-Term Reliability Assessment of High-Quality Optics under High-Energy and High-Average-Power Laser Operation
        Speaker: Hitoki Yoneda
      • 15
        Laser Damage Characteristics of microstructured optical components
        Speaker: Jinlong Zhang
      • 16
        Current challenges in high-power laser interactions with optical materials: fundamental mechanisms of damage and possible ways to maximize LIDT
        Speaker: Nadezhda Bulgakova
      • 17
        Pushing the limits – Ion Beam Figuring
        Speaker: David Schäfer
      • 18
        Ultrafast Laser Coatings for High-Power Laser Systems
        Speaker: Hongfei Jiao
    • 18:00
      Transport from ELI-NP to Hotel
    • 08:00
      Transport from Hotel to ELI-NP
    • Session 4 - Plasma Optics / Isolation
      • 19
        High throughput, renewable plasma mirrors and plasma mirror “fuses” based on ultrathin films of liquid crystal
        Speaker: Douglass Schumacher
      • 20
        Operation of a double-plasma mirror telescope with the 10-PW HPLS at ELI-NP
        Speaker: Katinka von Grafenstein
      • 21
        Gas optics for high power and high energy laser applications
        Speaker: Yurina Michine
      • 22
        Plasma Transmission Gratings for High-Power Pulse Compression
        Speaker: Matthew Edwards
      • 23
        High LIDT conductive coatings (ITO)
        Speaker: Marco Jupe
    • 11:05
      Coffee Break
    • Session 5 - Theoretical and Computational framework for laser damage
      • 24
        Towards Renewed ISO 21254 Standards for Laser-Induced Damage Threshold Testing
        Speaker: Andrius Melninkaitis
      • 25
        Ultrafast laser damage to Optics: A comprehensive computational approach
        Speaker: Enam Chowdhury
      • 26
        Atomistic simulations of optoelectronic properties of Si-TM-oxide materials for optical coatings
        Speaker: Alexandru Nemnes
    • 12:45
      Lunch
    • Session 6 - Gratings
      • 27
        MLD Gratings for Extreme Lasers: Status and Trends
        Speaker: Turan Erdogan
      • 28
        Progress in the latest pulse compressions gratings
        Speaker: Yunxia Jin
      • 29
        Investigation of Multilayer Coating Design Related to Laser Damage Resistance of Chirped Mirrors for the Mid‑Infrared Region
        Speaker: Muneo Sugiura
    • 30
      Poster Session + coffee break
    • 17:30
      Transport from ELI-NP to Dinner
    • 18:00
      Festive Dinner
    • 22:30
      Transport from Dinner to Hotels
    • 08:00
      Transport from Hotel to ELI-NP
    • Session 7 - Metrology and optics development in ELI and other facilities
      • 31
        High Power Optics Center at ELI-NP, Romania
        Speaker: Ioan Dancus
      • 32
        Contamination problem of high power and high energy lasers
        Speaker: Jitsuno Takahisa
      • 33
        Exploring Laser-Induced Damage Threshold in High-Intensity Optical Coatings
        Speaker: Adrien Chauvain
      • 34
        Exploring Laser Induced Damage Threshold by electrical characterization of mirrors. Contamination effects and perspective for real-time monitoring
        Speaker: Stefan Irimiciuc
      • 35
        Optimizing Performance of Focusing Parabolas
        Speaker: Flemming Tinker
      • 36
        Development of laser interferometer for laser optics measurement
        Speaker: Shijie Liu
    • 11:30
      Coffee Break
    • Session 8 - Nanolaminates
      • 37
        Dielectric quantized nanolaminates for high power laser optics
        Speaker: Thomas Willemsen
      • 38
        Magnetron sputtered quantized nanolaminates and their application in laser optical coatings
        Speaker: Stephan Waldner
      • 39
        Optical challenges in laser fusion drivers
        Speaker: Gaia Barbierio
      • 40
        IBS metamaterials for high-LIDT fusion optics: materials, design concepts and performance overview
        Speaker: Tobias Kruse
    • 13:30
      Lunch
    • 41
      ELI-NP presentation
      Speaker: Ioan Dancus
    • 14:30
      Closing ceremony. Disscusions. Poster competition awards
    • 15:20
      Facility visit