Preliminary list of lectures
- Introduction to laser safety at high power laser facilities
- Introduction to radiation safety at high power laser facilities
- Laser requirements for inertial fusion
- High energy lasers - components of a fusion laser system
- High-power high repetition rate lasers and diode pumping
- Laser beam handling and delivery to experimental stations
- Broadband lasers and smoothing techniques
- Optics damage and coatings
- Spatial and temporal properties of laser beams and their manipulation
- Chirped pulse amplification (CPA / OPCPA)
- Electromagnetic pulses
- Vacuum technology
- Target technology (two-photon polymerization printing, cryogenic and liquid targets)
Preliminary list of hands-on and other activities
- Fourier optics and its applications in high power lasers
- Laboratory challenge
- Laser focusing
- ELI facility tour
- VR exploration of laser systems and experimental stations
- Training in user application writing
- Student poster session
