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 dedicated optical diagnostics to characterize sample hydrodynamics during compression: 2 line-imaging VISARs and a streaked optical pyrometer.

Users' Access

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

The facility is open for:

laser + VISAR + X-rays 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.

Facility parameters

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Contacts

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

Publications

Balugani, S. et al (2024) 'New Constraints on the Melting Temperature and Phase Stability of Shocked Iron up to 270 GPa Probed by Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy', Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 254101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.254101

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

Last update: February 2025