The X-lites Network Facilties
| NAME | FACILITY SUMMARY | EXPERIMENTS | HIGHLIGHTS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apollon | Apollon is a multi PW, multi beam laser facility open to the international community via a call for proposal. | SFQED, particles acceleration, laboratory astrophysics, warm dense matter | |
| Central Laser Facility | The Central Laser Facility provides a broad spectrum of laser facilities, from high intensity laser systems to ultra-fast sources and laser microscopy techniques. Underpinning the laser facilities are enabling capabilities, from computational plasma physics to target micro-fabrication and engineering. | ||
| CXFEL - Compact X-ray Free Electron Laser | The compact X-ray free electron laser (CXFEL) brings ultrashort X-ray technology from large scale, expensive multibillion-dollar XFEL facilities at national labs to the university – the place where researchers work with their students on novel discoveries for a small fraction of the cost. Currently, there are only five large X-ray free electron lasers in the world, so that only five experiments can be done at any time. | ||
| ELI - Extreme Light Infrastructure | The Extreme Light Infrastructure is the world's largest and most advanced high-power laser infrastructure and a global technology and innovation leader in high-power, high-intensity, and short-pulsed laser systems. The international laser user facility ELI accommodates some of the most intense lasers in the world. ELI’s lasers produce ultra-short pulses of high energy photons, electrons, protons, neutrons. | ||
| Laboratory for InfraRed-driven Intense-field Science (LIRIS) | LIRIS high-power mid-infrared (MIR) lasers open up new possibilities for various strong-field applications, including high harmonic generation, light filamentation in gases, and relativistic plasma physics. LIRIS has developed chirped pulse amplifiers and optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers operating within the 3–8-micron range. | Light filamentation and non-perturbative harmonic generation is gases. Hard X-ray generation in liquid targets | |
| Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester (UR/LLE) | The Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester (UR/LLE), a premier research facility dedicated to advancing the frontiers of science and technology, explores laser-driven fusion and high-energy-density physics, contributing to national security, energy independence, and scientific discovery. | Fundamental and applied high-energy-density physics (HEDP), such as inertial confinement fusion, plasma physics, laboratory astrophysics, material science at extreme conditions. | LLE Offers: Education and Training, Workforce Development, and access to a National Laser User Facility (NLUF) |
Laserlab-Europe | Laserlab-Europe, bringing together 47 leading laser research infrastructures in 22 European countries, is committed to facilitating the development of advanced lasers and laser-based technologies in Europe; the majority of the members provides open access to their facilities to international scientists through the EU-funded Lasers4EU project on a large variety of topics. | ||
| NEXT - An international network for Non-linear Extreme ultraviolet to hard X-ray Techniques | The NEXT COST Action relies on the pioneering promising results, reported over the last decade, to create the first concerted experimental and theoretical effort aimed at implementing EUV/X-ray non-linear spectroscopies at table-top HHG and XFEL light sources. | EUV/X-ray science; Non-linear optics; High Harmonic Generation and Free Electron Laser sources; Methods and instrumentation development | Subscription link to Action |
| NSF NeXUS | NeXUS provides access to ultrafast optical capabilities, with extreme ultraviolet probe pulses and a broad spectrum of pump pulses, coupled to a variety of end stations to support measurements of chemicals, biochemicals, and materials. | XUV, femtosecond, attosecond, pump-probe, ARPES, STM, absorption, reflection, liquid sheet, photoelectron | New call for user proposals twice per year |
| ZEUS | ZEUS produces petawatt power pulses focused to ultra-high intensities that enable studies of strong-field physics, relativistic electron beams and other extreme plasma conditions in the laboratory. | Strong-field physics and relativistic plasmas, laser wakefield accelerators and applications, laser driven protons, ions and neutrons, extreme laboratory astrophysics, nuclear photonics |