Events

Current | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004

JRA Meetings
Vilnius, Lithuania, September 24-25, 2004
City Park Hotel, Vilnius, Conference Hall

Friday 24th September - JRA 2 / OTTER Meeting

John Collier, Chairman

8:30 - 11:00 Visit of VU Laser Research Center Laboratories

14:00 General Comments (John Collier)

14:15 LULI & CEA-CESTA (Jean Christophe Chanteloup & Herve Bercegol)
WP 1.1 – “Damage threshold increase”
WP 2.2 – “Phase Array Gratings / Beam Conditioning techniques”
WP 2.3 – “Di-Electric compressor”
WP 4.4 – “MOPA Diode using tapered mode propagation”

14:45 LOA (Speaker to be confirmed)
WP 1.3 – Phase Volume Holographic Gratings
WP 3.3 – Few Optical Cycle OPCPA

15:00 CLF (John Collier)
WP 1.2 – Low stress dielectric coatings for AO mirrors
WP 2.1 – High Energy Pump Study
WP 3.4 – OPCPA pumped at 0.8 um

15:15 FSU (Joachim Hein)
WP 1.5 – LID Mechanisms
WP 2.4 – Phased Array and Di-electric Grating development
WP 4.1 – Diode characterisation and fundamental studies

15:30 GSI (Paul Neumayer)
WP 2.2 – Phased Array Grating Compression / Beam Condition Tech

15:45 Coffee

16:15 VULRC & MPQ (Valadas Sirutkaitis / Valerijus Smilgevicius / Andrius Baltuska)
WP 1.4 – Damage threshold increase of optical components
WP 3.1 – Tabletop 10 fs OPCPA system at 2kHz

16:45 MBI (Ingo Will)
WP 3.2 – Efficiency Optimisation of an OPA
WP 4.3 – Diode pumped ring amplifier for an OPCPA pump

17:00 PALS (Hana Turcicova)
WP 3.5 – Iodine Laser pumed OPCPA and compression

17:15 CELIA (Jean Claude Gauthier)
WP 4.2 – Spatial Mode controlled Yb Regen and amplifier

17:30 Windup & Date / Location of Next Meeting (All)

19:00 Reception

 

Saturday 25th September - JRA 1 / FOSCIL Meeting

Philippe Balcou, Chairman

8:00 - 10:30 Visit of VU Laser Research Center Laboratories
10:30 Coffee break (City Park Hotel)

11:00 MPQ (Andrius Baltuška)
WP 1.2 – “Phase-controlled multi-kHz TW few-cycle Ti:S laser”
WP 3.4 – “Attosecond XUV/SXR streak camera”

11:15 LCVU (Kjeld Eikema)
WP 1.1 – “Phase-controlled 10 femtosecond OPCPA”
WP 4.2 – “Extension of frequency comb into XUV; metrology”

11:30 CUSBO (Mauro Nisoli)
WP 2:1 – “Phase-stabilized sub-10-fs UV-VIS NOPA”

11:45 MBI (Pancho Tzankov)
WP 2.3 – “10-30 fs pulses @ 200 nm”

12:00 LOA (Philippe Balcou)
WP 2.5 – “Control of TW pulses & optimization of HHG for max. yield”

12:15 SLIC (Bertrand Carré)
WP 2.5 – “Control of TW pulses & optimization of HHG for max. yield”
WP 3.3 – “Polarization gating of high-energy XUV pulses”

12:30 Lunch

14:00 LLC (Per Johnsson)
WP 3.5 – “XUV-FROG cross-correlator”

14:15 CELIA (Jean Claude Gauthier)
WP 3.3 – “Polarization gating of high-energy XUV pulses”

14:30 ULF-Forth (Dimitris Charalambidis)
WP 3.7 – “Dispersion-free XUV autocorrelator”

14:45 LENS (Marco Bellini)
WP 2.7 – “Control of temporal coherence of HHG source”
WP 4.2 – “Extension of frequency comb into XUV; metrology”

15:00 MPQ (Thomas Udem)
WP 4.1 – “Frequency-controlled high-energy 5 MHZ 10-fs source”
WP 4.2 – “Extension of frequency comb into XUV; metrology”

15:15 Windup & Date / Location of Next Meeting

18:45 Laserlab-Europe JRA board meeting