I’m excited to share that I’m leading a new six-institution program, Diagnostics for Extreme-LIGHT, to build the measurement science the multi-petawatt laser era demands.
High-intensity laser facilities are coming online around the world, including ZEUS in the U.S., CoReLS in South Korea, Vulcan 2020 in the U.K., Apollon in France, the Extreme Light Infrastructure, and the future NSF OPAL facility. Getting the most out of these machines depends on precise, radiation-tolerant diagnostics that can keep up shot after shot at peak power and high repetition rates.
Together with co-investigators W. Hill, M. Downer, E. Tubman, D. Schumacher, and A. Thomas, we’ll tackle real-time focal-spot correction, diagnostics for 10–200 GeV electrons, electronic proton radiography, pre-pulse metrology and plasma mirrors, virtual diagnostics with OSIRIS, and, from my group here at the University of Nevada, Reno, a laser-driven inverse-Compton X-ray source for radiography of matter under extreme conditions.
I’m grateful to this outstanding team and the US National Science Foundation.