FSU-IOQ Institute for Optics and Quantum Electronics, Jena, Germany

Access to the IOQ multi-terawatt lasers.

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Contact: Heinrich Schwoerer Email

The IOQ at the FSU Jena operates two facilities to which European researchers can gain access. JETI is a 12 TW Titanium Sapphire laser which can deliver up to 10^20 W / cm² to a solid target at a repetition rate of 10 Hz. It can be used for laser-plasma interaction studies, laser acceleration of electrons and ions as well as atomic and nuclear physics studies. The second facility is a 5 mJ, 40 fs laser system which can deliver intensities in excess of 10^17 W / cm² at a repetition rate of 1 kHz. This laser system is mainly used as a source of K α-radiation for time-resolved X-ray studies.

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Activities:

• High-intensity laser-plasma interactions
• Laser acceleration of electrons and ions
• laser-driven nuclear reactions and neutron emission
• generation of x-ray radiation in the energy range of some keV to MeV


Research opportunities within the Laserlab access activity:

• A 10Hz, 12 TW Ti:Sapphire laser system with up to 1 J in 80 fs, reaching 10^20 W/cm² on target.
• Diagnostics for laser-plasma interaction studies, covering the wavelength range from optical spectroscopy to EUV and soft x-ray detection, and diagnostics for spatially and spectrally resolved measurements of hard x-rays up to several MeV photon energy.
• A kHz soft x-ray source for time resolved x-ray spectroscopy. This fs-laser based source provides Kα -radiation at photon energies up to several tens of keV with a pulse duration of ~100 fs.