NATIONAL INSTITUTE for LASER, PLASMA and RADIATION PHYSICS
  LABORATORY of SOLID-STATE QUANTUM ELECTRONICS




LASERLAB III - Europe -
The integrated Initiative of European Laser Research Infrastructures
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PROJECT TYPE:                    CAPACITIES - RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES - SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
FINANCING:                           EUROPEAN UNION
PROJECT NUMBER:               284468

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PROJECT DIRECTOR:            Dr. Traian DASCALU
Email:                                   traian.dascalu@inflpr.ro
 

PERIOD:                               October 2012 - December 2015

COORDINATOR:
                  
National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Magurele, Bucharest, Romania

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SUMMARY  

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

web page: http://www.laserlab-europe.net/

 
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.

 
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).

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RESULTS
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 WP 32
In the frame of INREX package, the INFLPR's R&D activity is focused on high energy pulses generation, detection and its applications in biology.
    -  Experimental setup for THz generation by using TW optical pulses air filamentation was done;
    -  Theoretical studies for high power optical pulses rectification in nonlinear crystals were performed.
WP 33
In the frame of EUROLITE package, the INFLPR's R&D activity
consist in development of new ceramic active laser media doped with rare earth ions.
    - Spectroscopic studies on various ceramics (commercial type and home made) are in progress for different composite structures.
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Laboratory of Solid-State Quantum Electronics