Description
Laser-driven secondary sources provide compact, versatile, and high-brilliance beams of ions and radiation, enabling advanced applications beyond fundamental plasma physics. However, translating these capabilities into structured, user-oriented analytical services requires coordinated workflow design, data management, and expert interpretation. We present the Virtual Lab project, focused on developing a beta version of an online software platform integrating multiple non-destructive analytical methods already available at ELI Beamlines, enabling their coordinated future offering to paying customers. These techniques currently include SEM+EDS, XRF, XES, PIXE, DPAA, and X-ray Tomography, existing at different TRL and CRL levels. The Virtual Lab will therefore serve as a unifying digital environment supporting their further development, integration, and commercialization.
The pilot phase of the platform is focused on non-destructive heritage testing. Target customers include museums, galleries, universities, research institutions, as well as private collectors, banks, auction houses, and insurance companies. At the same time, the Virtual Lab will be designed as a general and expandable framework, adaptable to additional analytical methods and/or high-tech services with commercialization potential that are currently available or will become available at ELI Beamlines, such as optical coating or the Virtual Beamline concept for visualizing huge 3D data.
