Preliminary scientific program

abstracts of talks

 Sunday, 19th April
18:30 - 19:30Registration in guest house no. 4 of the mpipks
19:00 - 21:00Welcome reception in the mpipks' main building
  
 Monday, 20th April
08:45 - 09:00Opening by Frank Jülicher, the director of the mpipks & the scientific coordinators
 X-ray and X-FEL sources from LPI
09:00 - 10:30Wim Leemans (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
 Tutorial talk: Laser plasma accelerator development at Berkeley Lab for future light sources
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
 chair: Wim Leemans
11:00 - 11:30Sergey Rykovanov (Helmholtz Institute Jena)
 Plasma undulator based on laser excitation of wakefields in a plasma channel
11:30 - 12:00Stéphane Sebban (CNRS Palaiseau)
 Demonstration of fs plasma-based soft X-ray laser
12:00 - 12:30Kevin Cassou (Université Paris-Sud)
 A laser beam circulator for high spectral brightness γ-beam source
12:30 - 14:00lunch break
 chair: Emmanuel d'Humières
14:00 - 14:30Alexander Debus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
 Radiation from laser-plasma interactions - From diagnostics to all-optical free-electron lasers
14:30 - 15:00Darragh Corvan (Queen's University Belfast)
 Ultrahigh brilliance multi-MeV γ-ray beams from nonlinear relativistic Thomson scattering
15:00 - 15:30Igor Pogorelsky (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
 New opportunities for strong-field LPI studies in mid-IR spectral domain
15:30 - 16:00Arie Irman (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
 Correlation of electron and laser beam parameters to the spectral shape and bandwidth of laser-Thomson backscattering X-ray beams
16:00 - 16:30coffee break
16:30 - 17:30nlight15 colloquium
 chair: Ulf Saalmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme)
 Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik)
 Novel light from laser-driven relativistic plasma
17:30 - 19:00poster session (focus on posters with odd poster numbers)
19:00 - 20:30supper
  
 Tuesday, 21st April
 Parametric amplification of short pulses
08:30 - 10:00Nathaniel J. Fisch (Princeton University)
 Tutorial talk: Compressing light in plasma
 chair: Nathaniel J. Fisch
10:00 - 10:30John Farmer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
 Raman amplification in the strong wavebreaking regime
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:30Jorge Vieira (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa)
 Raman generation and amplification of ultra-intense lasers with orbital angular momentum in plasmas
11:30 - 12:00Marco Chiaramello (Laboratoire d'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses)
 Studies of stimulated Brillouin amplification of short laser pulse in the strong coupling regime
12:00 - 12:30Götz Lehmann (Henrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
 Plasma-based laser-pulse amplification via strongly coupled Brillouin scattering
12:30 - 14:00lunch break
 γ-ray sources and QED processes
14:00 - 15:30Luis Silva (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa)
 Tutorial talk: In silico plasmas under extreme laser intensities
 chair: Luis Silva
15:30 - 16:00Daniel Seipt (Helmholtz Institute Jena)
 Narrowband inverse Compton scattering X-ray sources at high laser intensities
16:00 - 16:05group photo (to be published on the workshop's web page)
16:05 - 16:30coffee break
16:30 - 17:00Matteo Tamburini (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)
 Plasma-based generation and control of a single few-cycle high-energy ultrahigh-intensity laser pulse
17:00 - 17:30Mathieu Lobet (CEA Arpajon)
 A wire target designed for efficient collimated high-frequency radiation emission
17:30 - 18:00Emmanuel d'Humières (Université Bordeaux)
 Optimization of radiation generation in the interaction of high intensity short pulse lasers with "escargot" targets
18:30 - 20:00supper
19:30 - poster session (focus on posters with even poster numbers)
  
 Wednesday, 22nd April
 venue: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
08:15departure from mpipks to HZDR (stopover at the FFF Cityhotel)
 Pump-probe experiments and applications of LPI sources
09:30 - 11:00Henry Chapman (DESY Hamburg)
 Tutorial talk: Imaging molecules with X-ray free-electron laser pulses
11:00 - 11:15coffee break
 chair: Henry Chapman
11:15 - 11:45Thomas Kluge (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
 Femtosecond probing of fast transient plasma processes in high-power laser interaction with solids
11:45 - 12:15Jens Uhlig (Lund University)
 Ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy with waterjet plasma and high efficient microcalorimetric array
12:15 - 12:45Alexander Sävert (Helmholtz Institute Jena)
 Laser wake field acceleration under the microscope
12:45 - 14:15lunch break
14:30 - 17:15tour of HZDR
17:30departure from HZDR back to mpipks
19:00 - 20:30supper
  
 Thursday, 23rd April
 XUV & attosecond pulse sources from LPI
08:30 - 10:00Fabien Quéré (CEA Gif-sur-Yvette)
 Tutorial talk: Plasma mirrors as attosecond light sources
 chair: Fabien Quéré
10:00 - 10:30Arnaud Debayle (CEA Arpajon)
 Self-consistent model of high-order harmonic generation by plasma mirror
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
11:00 - 11:30Olivier Guilbaud (Université Paris-Sud)
 Seeded operation of plasma based soft X-ray lasers
11:30 - 12:00Wenjun Ma (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
 Bright subcycle extreme ultraviolet bursts from a single dense relativistic electron sheet
12:00 - 12:30Zi-Yu Chen (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
 Wavebreaking induced transmitted emission of attosecond extreme ultraviolet pulse from overdense plasmas
12:30 - 14:00lunch break
 chair: Olga Kosareva
14:00 - 14:30Igor Andriyash (École Polytechnique Palaiseau)
 Kinetic theory and three-dimensional modeling of XUV amplification in the laser-induced optical lattice
14:30 - 15:00Alexander Popov (Moscow State University)
 Interference stabilization and UV lasing in a plasma channel formed in gas by intense RF field
15:00 - 15:30Anna Bogatskaya (Moscow State University)
 Guiding and amplification of radio-frequency radiation in a plasma channel created in different gases by the intense femtosecond laser pulse
15:30 - 16:00coffee break
16:00 leaving the institute for the guided tour through Dresden's old city centre (including an organ play in the Hofkirche)
20:00 - conference dinner at the Gasthaus Am Neumarkt
  
 Friday, 24th April
 Filamentation and THz generation
09:00 - 10:30See Leang Chin (Université Laval)
 Tutorial talk: Filamentation science and applications
10:30 - 11:00coffee break
 chair: See Leang Chin
11:00 - 11:30Olga Kosareva (Moscow State University)
 Long-wavelength radiation from femtosecond filaments in gases
11:30 - 12:00Tie-Jun Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai)
 Plasma filament based intense THz generation and its application
12:00 - 12:30C.H. Raymond Ooi (University of Malaya)
 Photoionization and nonlinear propagation of intense laser pulses
12:30 - 12:45concluding remarks
12:45 - 14:00lunch break
19:00 - 20:00public evening lecture
 Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik)
 Die auf der Lichtwelle reiten ...
  

For further information please e-mail to: nlight15pks.mpg.de