The Petawatt ELI laser system begins to operate near Prague

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3 July 2018

Dolni Brezany, Central Bohemia, 2 July (CTK) – Launch of the new L3-HAPLS petawatt laser system, developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States, in the ELI Beamlines Research Center Monday

ELI (Extreme Light Infrastructure) Beamlines is part of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. At the same time, it is one of the three ELI project research centers. ELI Nuclear Physics in Romania and ELI APLS in Hungary are the other two institutions

Representatives of Lawrence Livermore, Bill Goldstein and Constantin Haefner symbolically handed over Monday the laser system to Michael Prouza and Eva Zazimalova, president of the company. Czech Academy of Sciences.

Zazimalova said that the project has been more or less complete in terms of technology and that the research community could begin to benefit from it.

Zazimalova stated that the laser center will be used not only by physicists but also by biochemists. 19659004] Researchers believe that the L3-HAPLS system will open up a new field of research, including new methods of imaging in medicine, the search for resistance of materials for spaceflight or the careful verification of metal structures such as the bridges. Petr Dolecek, recalled that the ELI Beamlines would not have been built without the support of the European Commission, especially Comm. The Director of the ELI Delivery Consortium, Carlo Rizzuto, said that Europe supports the network of these centers also because she wanted to return to Central Europe after the events that occurred after the Second World War.

Rizzuto The ELI project is important not only for Europe but for the whole world.

A number of research institutions from the United States, Sweden, France, Germany, Poland and other countries have shown interest in the experiments of the laser. ELI Beamlines plans to have four laser systems. The first system is tested and the second is now used in a reduced form.

Another laser is under development. "He will be tested in Texas next week, then packed in boxes and transported to us," said Prouza.

"It's the most technologically advanced laser of its kind," Bedrich Rus The laser technologies in ELI Beamlines, told CTK about L3-HAPLS.

Rus stated that his output can be estimated at 160 times the installed capacity of all power plants in the world. He said that the laser generates 10 pulses per second. A femtosecond pulse is a beam about one-tenth of the width of a human hair.

Rus stated that this laser system can contribute to the development of new methods in the treatment of malignant tumors, the examination of matter in huge planets like Uranus or how a supernova evolves after the first time. explosion or what are the qualities of matter in a star collapsing

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