● LASERLAB-EUROPE
III is the European Consortium of
major Laser Research Infrastructures, forming a FP7 Integrated
Infrastructure Initiative. Geographically it covers the majority of
European
member states, following recent efforts to include partners from all
over Europe 27. Scientifically, it covers many areas of laser science
and
applications with particular emphasis on short-pulses and
high-intensities.
Recently this field has experienced remarkable advances and
breakthroughs in
laser technologies and beam parameters. Novel applications range from
coherent x-ray generation, laser particle acceleration, laboratory
astrophysics,
and attosecond physics to fusion research, materials research, and
biomedicine,
to name only few. Consequently - and also as a sign of its exceptional
internal coherence - the European laser community has engaged in the
world's first truly international laser infrastructures, ELI and HiPER.
Besides
offering unprecedented research opportunities these infrastructures,
together with the LASERLAB-EUROPE III Consortium, will substantially
contribute to innovation and help addressing the grand societal
challenges.
●
The
main
purposes of this project are:
A.
To
maintain a competitive, inter-disciplinary network
of European national laser laboratories;
B.
To
strengthen the European leading role in laser
research through Joint Research Activities, pushing the laser concept
into new directions and opening up new applications of key importance
in
research
and innovation;
C.
To
engage in Transnational Access in a highly
co-ordinated fashion for the benefit of the European research community;
D.
To
increase the European basis in laser research and
applications by reaching out to neighboring scientific communities and
assisting in the development of laser research infrastructures on both
the
national and the European
level, particularly the Pan-European
infrastructures ELI and HiPER.
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INFLPR
is involved with RTD activities in two work packages:
●
WP
32 - Inovative radiation sources at extremes (INREX);
● WP 33 - European Research Objectives
on Lasers for Industry, Technology and
Energy (EUROLITE).