ELI BEAMLINES

ELI Beamlines is the Czech part of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) project, which is a part of the European roadmap of next generation major research facilities that have been identified by the European Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI).

From 2020, ELI Beamlines is offering beamtime produced by two laser sources (100 mJ, 1 kHz, 16 fs pulses and 30 J, 10 Hz, 30 fs pulses) based on an open access policy. Other two laser sources are expected to be operational by the end of 2020, respectively 2021. The ELI Beamlines mission is both fundamental academic and applied research with direct societal impact in life sciences, material research and development of new energy sources.

The primary mission of ELI Beamlines is to produce an entirely new generation of secondary sources driven by ultra-intense lasers. These secondary sources will produce pulses of radiation and particles such as flashes of XUV, X-rays and gamma-rays, bunches of accelerated electrons, protons and ions, etc., exploitable as qualitatively new tools in many research disciplines and in the development of new technologies, namely material research and biotechnologies.

The research programmes of the ELI Beamlines project are structured in the following way:

RP1: Lasers generating high repetition rate ultrashort pulses and multi-petawatt peak powers

RP2: X-ray sources driven by ultrashort laser pulses

RP3: Particle acceleration by lasers

RP4: Applications in molecular, biomedical and material sciences

RP5: Plasma and high energy density physics

RP6: Exotic physics and theory

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