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The Intensity-Pulse Duration Conjecture: ELI’s Lynchpin ELI-NP: The W ay Ahead Bucharest March 10, 2011

The Intensity-Pulse Duration Conjecture: ELI’s Lynchpin ELI-NP: The W ay Ahead Bucharest March 10, 2011. Gérard Mourou , Institut de Lumière Extrême. The laser is 50!! . T. Maiman Hughes Laboratory May 16 1960. Laser Physics. Relativistic Optics GeV-TeV 2010.

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The Intensity-Pulse Duration Conjecture: ELI’s Lynchpin ELI-NP: The W ay Ahead Bucharest March 10, 2011

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  1. The Intensity-Pulse Duration Conjecture: ELI’s LynchpinELI-NP: The Way Ahead Bucharest March 10, 2011 Gérard Mourou, Institut de Lumière Extrême mourou CEA Bruyere

  2. The laser is 50!! T. Maiman Hughes Laboratory May 16 1960 mourou CEA Bruyere

  3. Laser Physics Relativistic Optics GeV-TeV 2010 Cold Atoms feV-neV 2010 1eV 1960 • Atomic, molecular and • optical (AMO)Physics • Atom Optics • Quantum Optics • Metrology • Condensed-Matter Physics • Quantum Information Science ( • Quantum Computer) • Chemistry • Relativistic/ultraRelativistic Optics • Plasma physics • Accelerator physics • Nuclear Physics • Cosmology • NL QED • General Relativity • Extradimension physics Présentation Site ILE G. Mourou

  4. Mission:“”””””Study matter from atom to vacuum

  5. Until today Fundamental Research has been carried out and dominated by the Particle-based Paradigm: namely accelerator mourou CEA Bruyere

  6. 20th Century, the Electron CenturyBasic Research Dominated by Massive and Charged Particles mourou CEA Bruyere

  7. 21st Century; the Photon CenturyCould basic research be drivenby the massless and chargeless particles; Photons?The First exemple is the Extreme Light Infrastructure ELI.? mourou CEA Bruyere

  8. 21st Century; the Photon CenturyCould basic research be drivenby the massless and chargeless Photons?? mourou CEA Bruyere

  9. Large Scale Lasers: Could they become the Next Large Scale Fondamental Research Infrastructures? mourou CEA Bruyere

  10. Tool Boxe • Includes, large fields to induce large scale perturbations in Atoms, Nuclei and Vacuum. • To produce ultrashort pulses of radiation and particle to probe ultrafast events in atomic, nuclear physics, .., in femto, atto, zepto, yocto second regime.

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  12. Power/intensity and Pulse Duration are naturally linked together • To get high peak power you must decrease the pulse duration. • To get short pulses you must increase the intensity The Peak Power -Pulse Duration Conjecture: G Mourou CEA Bruyere

  13. The Pulse Duration-Intensity Conjecture G.A. Mourou and T. Tajima, “More intense Shorter Pulse”, SCIENCE VOL 331 , 7 , p 41JANUARY 2011 mourou CEA Bruyere

  14. Europe has decided to build the highest intensity laser ELI 2PW, 20cm Few Facts about ELI Peak Power 200PW Energy per Pulse 2kJ Pulse duration 10fs Intensity>1025W/cm2 OPCPA-CPA Ti:sapphire 10 beams 1shot /mn First Light 2017 PW, 1mm ~highest power laser today Linewidth =50TW G Mourou CEA Bruyere

  15. Ultrashort pulses can provide Photons and Particles with Short and Synchronized Time Structure in the femtosecond, attosecond, zeptosecond regimes Particules: Electrons Protons, muons,… Visible High energy radiation: X, gamma ray G Mourou CEA Bruyere

  16. ELI Nuclear Physics • Fundamental Physics of Perturbative and Non-perturbative High-Field QED: Pair creation, high energy g rays, birefringence of the quantum vacuum. • High-resolution nuclear spectroscopy: • Neutron halo-isomers, chaotic properties of nuclear states, nuclear potential landscpe, parity-violating meson-nucleon coupling, pygmy dipole resonance . • Astrophysics of the r-, s-, p-processes in nucleosynthesis: masses of waiting point nuclei, pygmy resonance. mourou CEA Bruyere

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