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Optica High-Brightness Sources and Light-Driven Interactions Congress
22 March 2022 – 25 March 2022 Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
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Compact (EUV & X-ray) Light Sources
Emerging, compact extreme-ultraviolet and x-ray sources that exhibit high brightness and are small enough to be installed in laboratories at educational and research institutions, manufacturing facilities, hospitals, and other suitable sites, will revolutionize scientific and technical disciplines, complementing both existing and future large scale synchrotron radiation and free-electron laser sources. Applications span a wide range including biomedical, semiconductor manufacturing, fundamental and applied research, environmental engineering, industrial non-destructive testing and screening, and defense and security.
The aim of the Compact EUV and X-ray Light Source meeting is to assemble experts in both source technologies and their applications to present and exchange ideas and improve community wide understanding of current and future source capabilities, and current and future application needs. At this meeting the latest results in the development of these sources will be presented as well as descriptions of efforts to mature the technology so that they meet the requirements needed in order to transition the technology to industrial and medical applications. Conference topics will include the latest development in source technologies and applications in the EUV through hard-ray regime.
The collocation with the High-Intensity Sources and High-Field Phenomena (HILAS) and Mid-infrared Coherent Sources (MICS) meetings provides a unique opportunity to expand interaction with multidisciplinary groups that shares a broad range of interests and goal.
High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena (HILAS)
Addresses all aspects of strong field phenomena from the technology of high-intensity light sources to the physics of intense light-matter interaction.
HILAS aims to assemble a multidisciplinary community to present and exchange novel ideas and breakthrough achievements relating to the physics and technology of high field sources, and high-intensity laser-matter interaction.
The meeting covers both theoretical and experimental aspects of strong-field phenomena. The latest research results in terawatt/petawatt lasers, amplification of few-cycle pulses, laser fusion technologies, EUV and X-Ray sources based on lasers, high-intensity sources from the THz up to the X-Ray spectral range, plasmas in ultrahigh fields, advances in attosecond science and relativistic nonlinear phenomena are among the topics to be discussed.
Topics
1. Novel laser technology and methods for pushing high average power laser frontiers
2. Laser characterization methods and analysis algorithms
3. Target technology and diagnostics for high repetition rates
4. New data mining and analyses approaches for target physics understanding (such as Machine Learning, AI, etc.)
5. Intense laser-matter interaction from THz to gamma-beams, laser driven secondary sources and their applications (e.g. EUV, pulsed X-Ray, particle beams, etc.)
6. High-field re-scattering physics, relativistic nonlinear phenomena, intense pulse propagation and filamentation
7. Strong field laser science and experiments, QED at extreme intensities
8. High harmonic generation and attosecond science
9. Commercial applications driven by high intensity or high field laser developments
10. Theoretical advances in high-field physics and laser-plasma interaction
Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources (MICS)
The Mid-IR spectrum covering wavelengths from ~2 µm up to THz has become a region of increased interest in recent years. The region is rich in spectroscopic fingerprints of molecules, which are used to identify pollutants for chemical, environmental and medical diagnostics, for process control, as well as for safety, security and defense applications. This meeting will be focused on the most recent advances in mid-IR to THz science and technology, including the latest developments in solid-state and fiber lasers, semiconductor and quantum cascade lasers, nonlinear materials, frequency conversion devices and parametric sources, high-energy and high-intensity lasers, integrated photonics for frequency combs and continuum generation, as well as the application of mid-IR and THz sources in remote sensing, spectroscopy, frequency synthesis, imaging, and biomedicine.
Topics
1. Materials for mid-IR and THz Sources:
- Active ion-doped dielectric and semiconductor crystals
- Semiconductor materials and structures
- Specialty nonlinear fibers
- Nanomaterials
- Nonlinear optical materials and structures
2. Mid-IR and THz Coherent Sources:
- Semiconductor lasers
- Mid-IR and THz quantum cascade lasers
- Optically pumped semiconductor lasers
- Solid-state and fiber lasers
- Optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers
- Ultrashort pulse lasers and frequency combs
- High-intensity ultrafast sources
- High-power, high-energy sources
- Broadband and continuum sources
- Synchrotron radiation sources
- Integrated photonics for frequency combs and continuum generation
- THz generation with ultrashort pulsed lasers and nonlinear optics
- Nonclassical mid-IR sources
- Metamaterial enabled mid-IR technology
3. Applications of mid-IR and THz sources in:
- Remote sensing, imaging, astronomy
- Spectroscopy, trace gas detection, breath analysis
- Optical frequency synthesis, comb spectroscopy
- Laser surgery, biomedicine
- Materials processing
- Optical microscopy, biophotonics
- Nonlinear optics, attoscience
Submit to the JOSA B MICS Feature Issue. Registrants are encouraged to submit their work to a JOSA B feature issue highlighting research from the event. Submissions open 1 June 2022. Learn more
Topic Categories
1. EUV through hard-x-ray sources and components
Compact sources
Compact Free-electron lasers
Inverse Compton scattering sources
Laser and discharge produced plasma sources
X-ray laser sources
High-harmonic generation sources
High power lasers beam diagnostics tools
Radio frequency cavities, and guns
Undulators and wigglers (including permanent magnet, short-period microwave and THz undulators, superconducting devices)
Magnets and multiband achromats
Vacuum chambers and components
Others
2. Applications
EUV lithography and mask inspection
Semiconductor wafer inspection and metrology
Phase contrast imaging and tomography
Medical and clinical imaging
Biological imaging
Macromolecular crystallography
Cultural heritage studies
Non-destructive testing
Ultrafast and dynamic studies
Wide field imaging
Others
3. Enabling technologies such as optics, detectors, beam wavefront diagnostic tools, and other instruments
4. Data acquisition, management, and processing
High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena
Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources
High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena (HILAS)
Addresses all aspects of strong field phenomena from the technology of high-intensity light sources to the physics of intense light-matter interaction.
HILAS aims to assemble a multidisciplinary community to present and exchange novel ideas and breakthrough achievements relating to the physics and technology of high field sources, and high-intensity laser-matter interaction.
The meeting covers both theoretical and experimental aspects of strong-field phenomena. The latest research results in terawatt/petawatt lasers, amplification of few-cycle pulses, laser fusion technologies, EUV and X-Ray sources based on lasers, high-intensity sources from the THz up to the X-Ray spectral range, plasmas in ultrahigh fields, advances in attosecond science and relativistic nonlinear phenomena are among the topics to be discussed.
Topics
1. Novel laser technology and methods for pushing high average power laser frontiers
2. Laser characterization methods and analysis algorithms
3. Target technology and diagnostics for high repetition rates
4. New data mining and analyses approaches for target physics understanding (such as Machine Learning, AI, etc.)
5. Intense laser-matter interaction from THz to gamma-beams, laser driven secondary sources and their applications (e.g. EUV, pulsed X-Ray, particle beams, etc.)
6. High-field re-scattering physics, relativistic nonlinear phenomena, intense pulse propagation and filamentation
7. Strong field laser science and experiments, QED at extreme intensities
8. High harmonic generation and attosecond science
9. Commercial applications driven by high intensity or high field laser developments
10. Theoretical advances in high-field physics and laser-plasma interaction
Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources (MICS)
The Mid-IR spectrum covering wavelengths from ~2 µm up to THz has become a region of increased interest in recent years. The region is rich in spectroscopic fingerprints of molecules, which are used to identify pollutants for chemical, environmental and medical diagnostics, for process control, as well as for safety, security and defense applications. This meeting will be focused on the most recent advances in mid-IR to THz science and technology, including the latest developments in solid-state and fiber lasers, semiconductor and quantum cascade lasers, nonlinear materials, frequency conversion devices and parametric sources, high-energy and high-intensity lasers, integrated photonics for frequency combs and continuum generation, as well as the application of mid-IR and THz sources in remote sensing, spectroscopy, frequency synthesis, imaging, and biomedicine.
Topics
1. Materials for mid-IR and THz Sources:
- Active ion-doped dielectric and semiconductor crystals
- Semiconductor materials and structures
- Specialty nonlinear fibers
- Nanomaterials
- Nonlinear optical materials and structures
2. Mid-IR and THz Coherent Sources:
- Semiconductor lasers
- Mid-IR and THz quantum cascade lasers
- Optically pumped semiconductor lasers
- Solid-state and fiber lasers
- Optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers
- Ultrashort pulse lasers and frequency combs
- High-intensity ultrafast sources
- High-power, high-energy sources
- Broadband and continuum sources
- Synchrotron radiation sources
- Integrated photonics for frequency combs and continuum generation
- THz generation with ultrashort pulsed lasers and nonlinear optics
- Nonclassical mid-IR sources
- Metamaterial enabled mid-IR technology
3. Applications of mid-IR and THz sources in:
- Remote sensing, imaging, astronomy
- Spectroscopy, trace gas detection, breath analysis
- Optical frequency synthesis, comb spectroscopy
- Laser surgery, biomedicine
- Materials processing
- Optical microscopy, biophotonics
- Nonlinear optics, attoscience
Submit to the JOSA B MICS Feature Issue. Registrants are encouraged to submit their work to a JOSA B feature issue highlighting research from the event. Submissions open 1 June 2022.
Plenary tcSpeakers
Scott Diddams
National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA
An Optical Sampling Oscilloscope
I will intorduce the principles of a sampling oscilloscope based on dual optical frequency combs that has bandwidth of 100THz. Applications in precision infrared spectroscopy, microscopy and quantum electric field metrology will be described.
Chang Hee Nam
Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
Ultrahigh Intensity Laser for strong field physics research
Ultrahigh intensity lasers have opened up research opportunities in charged particle acceleration and strong field quantum electrodynamics. By tightly focusing a wavefront-corrected multi-PW laser the record-breaking laser intensity of 1023 W/cm2 was realized at CoReLS.
Sakura Pascarelli
European XFEL, Germany
The European XFEL: new science opportunities and first results
The EuXFEL is the first hard XFEL powered by a superconducting accelerator. Six instruments started user operation between 2017 and 2019. I will report first results from early experiments, and comment on important challenges ahead.
Plenary
Compact (EUV & X-Ray) Light Sources
- Sakura Pascarelli, European XFEL GmbH, Germany
The European XFEL: new science opportunities and first results. Plenary - Chao Chang, KLA Corporation, United States
Laser Produced Plasma X-Ray Sources for Semiconductor Metrology Keynote - Andreas Maier, DESY, Germany
Machine Learning Improved Laser-Plasma Acceleration Keynote - Christopher Barty, University of California Irvine, United States
Ultrabright, MeV-class Laser-Compton System for Medical and Industrial Applications - Enrico Brunetti, Univ. of Strathclyde
A Coherent Undulator Source Based on Coherent Synchrotron Radiation from Attosecond Electron Bunches Produced by a Laser-plasma Accelerator - Sandrine Dufrenoy, CEA Saclay, France
Commissioning Experiments on the PW APOLLON laser facility - Marina Eckermann, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
X-ray Phase-contrast Tomography as a Tool for 3D Virtual Histology: the Example of Lung Tissue in Severe Cases of Covid-19 - Kwang-Je Kim, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
Realizing Cavity-Based X-ray Free Electron Lasers - Ruxin Li, SIOM-CAS
Development of Compact XFELs Based on Laser Plasma Accelerators - Ulf Lundström, Kungliga Tekniska Hogskolan, Sweden
High X-ray Brightness Through Liquid-metal-jet Anodes or Nanofocus Technology - Dinh Cong Nguyen, Stanford University, United States
Novel Design of a Compact FEL for EUV Lithography - Lydia Rush, Colorado State University, United States
Extreme Ultraviolet Laser Ablation Mass Spectrometry: A New Tool for Chemical Mapping at the Nanoscale - Daniel Symes, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom
EPAC: A New, Advanced Facility for Applications of Laser-driven Accelerators - Takeo Watanabe, University of Hyogo, Japan
R&D Activities of EUV Lithography at NewSUBARU, and Possibility of Beyond EUV - Wenbing Yun, Sigray Inc., United States
Applications of High Brightness Lab
High-Intensity Lasers and High-Field Phenomena
- Chang Hee Nam, Gwangju Inst of Science & Technology, Republic Of Korea
Ultrahigh Intensity Laser for strong field physics research Plenary - Mina Bionta, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
On-chip Sampling of Optical Fields with Attosecond Resolution - Chandra Breanne Curry, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, United States
LaserNet US - Thomas Fennel, University of Rostock
Modelling and Imaging Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Dielectrics - Janos Hebling, Pecsi Tudomanyegyetem, Hungary
Extreme-high-field THz Pulse Sources and Their Application for Particle Acceleration - Zsuzsanna Heiner, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Germany
Interfacial Chemistry Applications with Intense High-repetition-rate, Mid-infrared Laser Pulses - Derek Mariscal, LLNL, United States
Novel Temporal Pulse Shaping of Ultraintense Short Pulses for Precision Tailoring of Secondary Sources - Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland at College Park, United States
Spatio-temporal Optical Vortices: a New Orbital Angular Momentum State of Light - Charlotte Palmer, Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom
High-repetition Rate Laser-proton Acceleration: Automation and Optimisation - Rob Shalloo, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Control and Optimisation of Plasma Accelerators Using Machine Learning - Issa Tamer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
High Energy Extraction from Diode-pumped Tm:YLF
Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources
- Scott Diddams, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States Plenary
- Oliver Heckl, Universitat Wien, Austria
Spectrally Tunable High-Power Low-Noise Yb:fiber-based Chirped Pulse Amplifier for Mid-IR Light Generation - Jonas Heidrich, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
SESAMs for high-power Ho-doped lasers at 2.1 µm - Jana Jagerska, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Photonic Integrated Sensors for Trace Gas Spectroscopy - Alireza Marandi, California Institute of Technology, United States
Machine Learning Improved Laser-Plasma Acceleration - Ioachim Pupeza, Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Germany
High-sensitivity Infrared Field-resolved Spectroscopy - Sven Ramelow, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Spectroscopy and Imaging with Undetected Mid-IR Photons - Clara Saraceno, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany
Advances in High-power and High-repetition Rate THz Sources - Benedikt Schwarz, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Intra-oscillator High Harmonic Generation Inside an Ultrafast Thin-disk laser – a Single-stage, MHz-repetition-rate XUV Source - Grzegorz Sobon, Politechnika Wroclawska, Poland
Compact Fiber-based Mid-infrared Frequency Comb Sources - Gerard Wysocki, Princeton University, United States
Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Laser Frequency Combs for Spectroscopic Chemical Sensing – Recent Progress and Applications
Special Events
Ultra-high intensity lasers around the world
Tuesday, 22 March 17:00 – 18:00
Join this global panel to learn what to expect from the world’s most high brightness sources in the coming years. Panelists will also discuss how to sign up for experiments, apply for funding, and upcoming research campaigns. Time will be reserved for questions with the panelists.
Organizer
Constantin Häfner, Fraunhofer Institut für Lasertechnik, Germany
Speakers
Kramer Akli, Department of Energy, USA
Colin Danson, AWE, UK
Chang Hee Nam, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
Allen Weeks, ELI, Czechia
Technology Showcase: From EUV to SXR: Next-Gen Metrology and Inspection Sources
Wednesday, 23 March 10:00 – 10:20
Speaker: Bill Solari, Senior Product Manager, EUV, Energetiq Technology
As a leader in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) source development, Energetiq has over 50 sources in the field being used in materials research and high-volume manufacturing applications. Next generation metrology and inspection sources need higher power, higher numerical aperture (NA) and more brightness. Beyond EUV, emerging soft x-ray (SXR) technology is unlocking a small footprint alternative to synchrotrons with a lower cost-of-ownership and higher availability. This showcase will address the challenges of current technology and solutions that will reveal the future of metrology and inspection sources.
Lasers and Free-Electron Lasers Session
Thursday, 24 March 09:00 – 11:00
Conventional lasers and laser based secondary sources as well as Free-Electron Lasers have made tremendous progress over the last decades in terms of key parameters such as pulse duration, average power and energy as well as wavelength coverage. In addition conventional lasers are indispensable tools in advanced Free-Electron Laser facilities and related experiments. This session brings together key players in these areas to review progress and speculate about possibilities for the future given recent advances in both fields.
Organizer
Franz Kaertner, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Speakers
Carlo Callegari, FERMI, Italy
AMO Science with a temporally-coherent seeded FEL
Zhirong Huang, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA
High-power, high-brightness X-ray FEL development at LCLS
Heung-Sik Kang, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Korea
High brightness XFEL R&D of the PAL-XFEL
Agostino Marinelli, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA
Attosecond pump/probe experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source
Eiji Takahashi, RIKEN, Japan
High efficiency ultrafast soft x-ray harmonic generation which is a complementary partner to Free Electron Lasers
Kensuke Tono, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Japan
SACLA: XFEL Facility for Scientific Applications[Top]
Technology Showcase: Novel Optics for Optimizing the 4th Generation Sychrotron Radiation Facility
Thursday, 24 March 16:30 – 16:50
Speaker: Yoshio Ichii, Ph.D., Group Lead and Senior Manager of Sales Department, JTEC Corporation
We, JTEC Corporation, have manufactured various High-Precision X-ray Mirrors by using EEM, nano-fabrication technology, and RADSI and MSI, nano-measurements derived from the collaboration work between Osaka University and RIKEN SPring8.
Since the start of our fabrication, we have delivered approximately 1,100 high precision X-ray mirrors to facilities worldwide, as of March 2022.
Yoshio Ichii will give an overview of product examples: Super Polished KB mirror; Advanced KB Mirror; Ellipsoidal Mirror; and Deformable Mirror.
Congress Reception
Thursday, 24 March 18:30 – 20:00
Join your peers at the High-brightness Congress Reception aboard the SS Armada as it takes a memorable cruise down the Danube, with nighttime views of the stunning cities of Buda and Pest. The reception is available for technical attendees with a EUR 10 reservation fee and EUR 65 for non-registered guests who wish to attend.
Tour of ELI ALPS
Saturday, 26 March 09:30 – 16:30
Join fellow High-brightness Congress attendees on an exclusive tour of the ELI ALPS facility. The day will start will an introductory talk in the conference hall, focusing on the science and experiments performed at ELI ALPS, followed by a guided tour of the facility where you will be introduced to the implemented research infrastructure, the main fields of research, and the special features of the building complex. The tour will conclude with lunch served on site at ELI ALPS. Transportation to and from the facility will be provided. The shuttle will depart the Kempinski Hotel Corvinus in Budapest at 09:30 and will return to the hotel at approximately 16:30.
A shuttle and RSVP fee of EUR 60 is required to reserve your spot.
