Augsburg 2006 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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K: Kurzzeitphysik

K 5: Licht- und Strahlungsquellen

K 5.4: Vortrag

Dienstag, 28. März 2006, 12:00–12:15, 1003

Petawatt Field Synthesizer — •Stefan Karsch¹, Joachim Hein², Mathias Siebold², Joszef Fülöp¹, Zsuzsanna Major¹, Jens Osterhoff¹, Roland Sauerbrey², and Ferenc Krausz¹ — ¹Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (MPQ) — ²Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (FSU)

The group of Prof. Krausz at the MPQ in Garching is recently aquired funding for the next five years from the Max-Planck Society to build the Petawatt Field Synthesizer (PFS), a leading edge, ultrahigh intensity, few cycle light source. It is designed to produce 5 fs pulses with an output power of 0.5-1×10¹⁵ W, at a repetition rate of 10 Hz. The combination of these goals is pushing the frontier of current laser technology, and will require significant R&D effort in several fields. The talk will give an insight into the novel approach for realizing the source and will also describe the scientific goals to be addressed with PFS. First experiments will focus on the generation of fs, high brilliance particle and X-ray beams, as well as an extension of the temporal resolution into the attosecond realm. Later on, it is planned to use these beams as probes for single-molecular imaging, fast processes in dense plasmas and to drive a table-top X-ray free electron laser.