ELI ALPS

ELI Attosecond Light Pulse Source (ELI-ALPS, Szeged, Hungary) is the establishment of a unique attosecond facility that produces ultrashort pulsed light sources between THz (1012 Hz) and X-ray (1018 - 1019 Hz) with high repetition rates for both developers and users.

The primary mission of the ELI-ALPS research facility is to make a wide range of ultrashort light sources accessible to the international scientific community with a special research focus upon coherent extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) and X-ray radiations and attosecond pulses.

The secondary purpose of the facility is to contribute to the necessary scientific and technological developments required for 200 PW peak intensity pulse generation.

The ELI-ALPS infrastructure will provide the users, in the fields of scientific research and industrial applications, with primary laser pulses in conjunction with an impressive array of synchronized secondary light and particle pulses.

The outstanding characteristics of the source parameters include few-cycle pulses, from the terahertz/infrared up to the petahertz/ultraviolet, with an impressive 10 Hz to 100 kHz repetition rate; attosecond extreme-ultraviolet, soft and hard X-ray mJ pulses with a 10 Hz -100 kHz repetition rate; sub-femtosecond hard X-ray pulses up to 10 keV photon energy and controlled ultra-relativistic pulse shapes with ultra-high contrast with 1Hz repetition rate.

The overall coordination of the preparation and implementation of the project in Hungary is managed by ELI-HU Non-profit Ltd. – a beneficiary of the Structural Funds – financed project to build ELI-ALPS. It is also involved in other projects and has already two approved Horizon 2020 proposals.

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