Name: ATF Science Planning Workshop 2024
Start: 2024-06-20T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-21T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Bldg 515

ATF Science Planning Workshop 2024

from Thursday, June 20, 2024 (8:00 AM) to Friday, June 21, 2024 (6:30 PM)

Monday, June 17, 2024
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Thursday, June 20, 2024

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: ITD Seminar Room, Second Floor
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: ITD Seminar Room, Second Floor
Contributions

9:30 AM Welcome - JoAnne Hewett (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

9:45 AM Workshop Logistics - Mary Jane Ilardi

9:50 AM Summary of Previous Workshop and ATF Response - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

10:20 AM Top Level Workshop Context - Mark Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:45 AM Discussion
11:15 AM

11:15 AM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Lunch on your own
Lunch on your own
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: ITD Seminar Room, Second Floor
Contributions

2:00 PM Enhancing keV high harmonic signals generated by long-wave infrared lasers - Zenghu Chang (University of Ottawa)

2:15 PM Dual-frequency-comb spectroscopy: from 1 THz to 1 PHz - Konstantin Vodopyanov ( University of Central Florida)

2:30 PM Future perspectives for near-critical density interactions at the ATF - Oliver Ettlinger (Imperial College London)

2:45 PM Coherent laser ion acceleration schemes using LWIR lasers - Aakash Sahai (Univ of Colorado)

3:00 PM Suitability of LWIR-driven LWFA for External Injection - Michael Downer (University of Texas at Austin)

3:15 PM Two-color Ionization injection of highe quality electrons - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

3:30 PM Discussion
4:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: ITD Seminar Room, Second Floor
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: ITD Seminar Room, Second Floor
Contributions

4:30 PM High efficiency tapered undulator-based FEL oscillator cavity/Coherent enhancement effects in Inverse Compton Scattering - Brian Schaap (UCLA)

4:45 PM Development of Inverse Compton Scattering - Yusuke Sakai (UCLA)

5:00 PM What would it take to demonstrate a coherent X- ray source at ATF? - Chan Joshi (UCLA)

5:15 PM Discussion
6:40 PM

6:40 PM - 9:40 PM
Friday, June 21, 2024
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 9:25 AM
Room: ITD Seminar Room, Second Floor
Contributions

9:00 AM Summary of Laser BRN Workshop - Cameron Geddes (LBNL)
9:25 AM
9:25 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: ITD Seminar Room, Second Floor
Contributions

9:25 AM Non-linear Optical Materials and Systems for Generating Mid-IR Light - Kevin Zawilski ( BAE Systems)

9:40 AM High-power MWIR/LWIR ultrafast lasers for high-energy physics - Sergey Mirov (University Professor of Physics, University of Alabama at Birmingham)

9:55 AM e-beam probing & hosing studies in LWIR-driven LWFA - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

10:10 AM Compact, tunable laser source of exotic particles - Aakash Sahai (Univ of Colorado)

10:25 AM Discussion
11:05 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:05 AM - 11:25 AM
Room: ITD Seminar Room, Second Floor
11:25 AM
11:25 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: ITD Seminar Room, Second Floor
Contributions

11:25 AM Architecture for next generation LWIR laser - Mikhail Polyanskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratoty)

11:45 AM LWIR front end Development - William Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:00 PM Nonlinear Pulse compression - Igor Pogorelsky (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:10 PM Discussion
12:50 PM Lunch on your own
Lunch on your own
12:50 PM - 1:50 PM
1:50 PM
1:50 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: ITD Seminar Room, Second Floor
Contributions

1:50 PM Novel high-power mid-IR sources based on optically pumped CO2 laser technology - Sergei Tochitsky (UCLA)

2:05 PM High Peak Power 2.8 µm GaSb-Based Cascade Diode Laser Arrays for Optical Pumping of CO2 Gas and Fe:ZnSe - Leon Shterengas (Stony Brook University)

2:20 PM Plasma optics & Raman amplification - Daniel Gordon (Naval Research Laboratory)

2:35 PM Plasma Optics for Steering and Shaping High-Power LWIR Laser Pulses - Julia Mikhailova (Princeton University) Matthew Edwards (Stanford University)

2:50 PM Producing and Measuring “Flying-Doughnut” Pulses - Paul Corkum ( University of Ottawa)

3:05 PM Discussion
3:45 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: ITD Seminar Room, Second Floor
4:05 PM
4:05 PM - 5:21 PM
Room: ITD Seminar Room, Second Floor
Contributions

4:05 PM PAC Comments on ATF Roadmap - Sandra Biedron (Element Aero)

4:20 PM SWP Report - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

4:35 PM Mid-IR Facility Proposal - Igor Pogorelsky (BNL/CAD)

4:50 PM Close Out & Discussion - Mark Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

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