High Power Laser Facility

High Power Laser Facilty

The High Power Laser Facility couples a 50 J nanosecond drive laser to ID24-ED to perform single-bunch (100 ps) X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy on laser-driven dynamically compressed samples. It features with dedicated optical diagnostics to characterize sample hydrodynamics during compression: currently 2 line-imaging VISARs. A streaked optical pyrometer will be available from mid-2024.

Users' Access

The standard ESRF calls for proposals are used: twice a year for experiments scheduled 12 months later.

The facility is open for both:

laser + VISAR + X-rays experiments
laser + VISAR experiments (referenced as laser-only or offline experiments)

Before official X-ray beamtime, we require that you send us some of your targets 6 months ahead for us to assess their behavior.

HPLF contacts
Raffaella Torchio	torchio@esrf.fr	Scientist in charge of ID24-ED and HPLF
Nicolas Sévelin-Radiguet	nicolas.sevelin-radiguet@esrf.fr	Laser engineer
Jean-Alexis Hernandez	jean-alexis.hernandez@esrf.fr	Scientist in charge of dynamic compression experiments

Hernandez, J.-A. et al. (2024) ‘The high power laser facility at beamline ID24-ED at the ESRF’, High Pressure Research, pp. 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/08957959.2024.2356530 N. Sévelin-Radiguet et al., Towards a dynamic compression facility at the ESRF, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577521011632