ELI User Meeting 2025

Highlights of Experiments

PART 1 - Wednesday | 18 June 2025 | 13:00 - 15:00

2 parallel sessions:

AMO and Physical Chemistry

• Christopher Arrell, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
  Towards attosecond spectroscopy of liquids and solutes at ELI 

            

• Paris Tzallas, The Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH)
  Metrology of attosecond VUV pulses generated in laser driven semiconductors

             

• Vasileios Balos, IMDEA Nanoscience 
  Understanding the nonlinear mobility behavior of p- and n-doped Silicon 

           

• Cristian Medina Hernandez, Max Planck Institute
  TBA

             

• John Kennis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Photoreceptor protein dynamics and mechanisms probed with multi-timescale femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy

             

 

Ion Acceleration, Overdense Plasma/Radiation, Applications

• Marco Borghesi, Queen's University Belfast
  Collimated delivery of laser-accelerated ions

           

• Martina Salvadore, National Institute of Optics (Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR-INO)
  Frequency-Doubled High-Intensity Laser Beams for Improved Proton Acceleration

           

• Norbert Kroo, Wigner Institute 
  High field nanoplasmonics for laser assisted nuclear fusion

           

• Franziska Treffert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 
  Bayesian optimization of ​Target Normal Sheath Acceleration proton yield at ELI-Beamlines

           

• Ishay Pomerantz, Tel Aviv University
  Direct laser acceleration of electrons at ELI

           

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PART 2 - Thursday | 19 June 2025 | 10:00 - 12:00

2 parallel sessions:

Material and Surface Science

• Wolfgang Werner, Technische Universität Wien
  K-space rabbit on graphite from outer space

           

• Anna Karner, Graz University of Technology
  Transmissive optical elements for extreme ultraviolet light

           

• Neil Moffat, Institut de Microelectrònica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM)
  Developing a new detector for low penetrating radiation

           

• Morten Kildemo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NNTU)
  Ultrafast time-resolved Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of plasmonic “hot electron sensor” based on Plasmonic and dielectric metasurfaces : Step 1- Nanomanufacturing computational and optical metrology

            

• Elias Baron, Magdeburg University 
  Determination of ultra-fast carrier related processes in cubic GaN by femtosecond pump-probe ellipsometry

            

 

Electron Acceleration, Underdense Plasma/Radiation, Applications

• Slava Smartsev, Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée (LOA) 
  Carrier-Envelope Phase (CEP) effects in laser-plasma acceleration and recent results from eSYLOS campaign

           

• Elias Gerstmayr, Queens University Belfast 
  All-optical self-aligned Compton source using a PW-scale laser-wake field accelerator and a plasma mirror

           

• Alexander Pirozhkov, KPSI QST
  Relativistic Flying Mirror experiment at the ELI-ELBA Facility

           

• Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland 
  Multi-GeV laser wakefield acceleration using meter-scale plasma waveguides

           

• Kensuke Homma, Hiroshima University 
  Status of searches for sub-eV dark matter with stimulated resonant laser-laser collisions