Design, installation and commissioning of the ELI-Beamlines high-power, high-repetition rate HAPLS laser beam transport system to P3

0552200 - FZÚ 2022 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Borneis, Stefan - Laštovička, Tomáš - Sokol, Martin - Jeong, Tae Moon - Condamine, Florian P. - Renner, Oldřich - Tikhonchuk, Vladimir - Bohlin, Hannes - Fajstavr, Antonín - Hernandez Martin, Juan C. - Jourdain, Noémie - Batheja, Deepak Kumar - Modřanský, David - Pokorný, Adam - Wolf, Adam - Zhai, Shuhua - Korn, Georg - Weber, Stefan A.
Design, installation and commissioning of the ELI-Beamlines high-power, high-repetition rate HAPLS laser beam transport system to P3.
High Power Laser Science and Engineering. Roč. 9, June (2021), č. článku e30. ISSN 2095-4719. E-ISSN 2052-3289
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT EF16_019/0000789; GA MŠMT EF15_003/0000449
Grant - others:OP VVV - ADONIS(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000789; OP VVV - HiFi(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000449
Research Infrastructure: ELI Beamlines III - 90141
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : beam transport system * cleanliness * high-power laser * laser commissioning * laser–plasma experiment * optomechanics * stability * X-ray * user facility
OECD category: Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
Impact factor: 5.943, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2021.16

The design and the early commissioning of the ELI-Beamlines laser facility’s 30 J, 30 fs, 10 Hz HAPLS (High-repetitionrate Advanced Petawatt Laser System) beam transport (BT) system to the P3 target chamber are described in detail. It is the world’s first and with 54 m length, the longest distance high average power petawatt (PW) BT system ever built. It connects the HAPLS pulse compressor via the injector periscope with the 4.5 m diameter P3 target chamber of the plasma physics group in hall E3. It is the largest target chamber of the facility and was connected first to the BT system. The major engineering challenges are the required high vibration stability mirror support structures, the high pointing stability optomechanics as well as the required levels for chemical and particle cleanliness of the vacuum vessels to preserve the high laser damage threshold of the dielectrically coated high-power mirrors.

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