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The National Institute of Standards and Technology is sponsoring a one-and-a-half-day workshop bringing together international experts from industry, academia, and government organizations to identify key optical metrology needs for extreme pulsed lasers (high peak power Terawatt to Petawatt class or high pulse energies).
Goals:
- Develop a list of key optical measurements for these pulsed lasers including achievable measurement uncertainty.
- Identify the roadblocks preventing researchers from being able to report trusted error bars for these measurements.
- Outline next steps to improving these measurement capabilities.
- Generate a publicly available report from the information gathered above.
Format: A series of invited talks on extreme pulsed laser metrology needs along with break-out groups to generate recommendations. All talks are “Invited” with an emphasis on discussion. In this true workshop format the attendees will be as important as the speakers. Attendance is limited to 30-50 participants.
Workshop program committee:
- Luis Miaja-Avila (Co-chair, NIST)
- Paul Williams (Co-chair, NIST)
- David Garand (Sydor Technologies)
- Bryan Holtsberry (U.S. Army)
- Hiromitsu Kiriyama (QST)
- Daniel Kramer (ELI Beamlines)
- Mike Litos (University of Colorado)
- Marco Lopez (PTB)
- Daniel Short (U.S. Army)
AGENDA: Pulsed Laser Metrology workshop
6-7 August 2025
Wednesday, August 6
8:30-9:00 - Coffee/Snacks -
9:00-9:20 Welcome/Introduction
9:20-9:50 “Ensuring accuracy and consistency through SI-traceability”
Michelle Stephens, NIST
9:50-10:50 “Laser pulse metrology challenges at ELI-NP 2x10PW laser system”
Daniel Ursescu, ELI-NP
10:50-11:10 - Break -
11:10-11:40 “LaserNetUS: the collaborative network to advance high-power laser science and applications”
Mingsheng Wei, University of Rochester
11:40-12:10 “About a tenth of a kilojoule in about a fortieth of a picosecond: Seeing a zetawatt equivalent ultrashort pulse laser system”
John Nees, University of Michigan
12:10-12:40 “Petawatt-class and kilowatt average power ultrashort pulse lasers at Colorado State University: Development and Applications”
Jorge Rocca, Colorado State University
12:40-13:40 - Lunch -
13:40-14:10 “Intense laser damage to critical optics: a bottleneck for the development of high repetition rate petawatt class laser platforms”
Enam Chowdhury, Ohio State University
14:10-14:40 “'Laser pulseform, metrology, and development for plasma accelerators”
Cameron Geddes, LBNL/BELLA
14:40-15:10 “The development of high peak and average power laser drivers for applications”
Brendan Reagan, Colorado State University
15:10-15:30 - Break -
15:30-16:00 “Petawatt pulse diagnostics”
Erhard Gaul, Marvel Fusion
16:00-16:30 “Delivering laser performance conditions to enable fusion ignition and beyond at the National Ignition Facility”
Jean-Michel Di Nicola, LLNL
18:00-20:00 Dinner
Thursday, August 7
7:00-8:00am OPTIONAL – Short hike in the foothills of Boulder
9:00-9:30 - Coffee/Snacks -
9:30-10:00 “Current capabilities and limitations of commercially available laser pulse energy measurement technologies”
Geoffrey-Axel Michaud-Ferland, Pierre-Rene Blouin, Gentec-EO
10:00-10:30 “Full-power, in-situ measurement of laser intensity in the terawatt and petawatt Regime”
Anthony Raymond, University of Rochester
10:30-11:00 “Spatio-temporal shaping and characterization of high-power ultrafast pulses”
Chip Durfee, Colorado School of Mines
11:00-11:20 - Break -
11:20-11:50 “Measuring to improve: Using third-order autocorrelation to push nonlinear pulse compression forward”
Simon Reiger, Ultrafast Innovations
11:50-12:20 “State-of-the-art diagnostics for ultra-short optical pulses”
Olaf Korth, APE America
12:20-13:20 - Lunch -
13:20-16:00 Workshop-guided discussion
16:00 Workshop Close
Boulder Courtyard by Marriott
4710 Pearl E Cir, Boulder, CO 80301
Room Block for Pulse laser Metrology Workshop
Courtyard Boulder for 173.00 USD per night - Last Day to Book : Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Please use this link to book your room
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