Projects
The following projects have been undertaken at partner institutions:
- Development of a compact, fibre optics-based electron accelerator
- Development of a laser velocimeter
- Development of optimal ionization schemes for the dual dye - Ti:Sa laser system of the Resonance Ionization Laser Ion Source (RILIS) at the ISOLDE on-line isotope separator
- Research and development of photo cathodes sensitive to visible laser beams for photoinjector applications
- Development of a laser emittance meter
- The development of narrow linewidth lasers for high resolution RILIS applications
- Investigations into particle acceleration for hadron therapy
- Femtosecond X-ray sources from laser-driven electron accelerators
- Developing the current experimental research into laser acceleration to a pre-commercial level
- Computer-based modeling and experimental optimization studies into novel high voltage supplies and generators
- Integration of a resonant ionization laser ion source system into the existing off line test bench of the SPIRAL2 TISS
- Study of resonant laser ionization in the REGLIS low energy branch of the S3 spectrometer at SPIRAL2-GANIL
- Development of a high brightness superconducting RF photo injector for electron-laser interaction experiments at the ELBE accelerator facility
- Laser particle acceleration and laser driven Thomson x-ray backscattering on electron sources
- Study of neutron production from 2 stage nuclear reactions driven by terawatt laser-target interactions
- Measurement of the longitudinal bunch shape with electro-optical techniques in an electron accelerator
- Precision determination of electron beam energy with Compton backscattered laser photons
- Accelerator Timing Monitor with Femtosecond Precision
- An advanced electro-optic bunch time profile monitor for the CERN CLIC Project - development of novel materials and techniques