Conveners
WGs 2+8 Joint Session: Session 1 of 1
- Stephen Milton
- Alexey Arefiev (UC San Diego)
- Marcus Babzien (BNL)
- David Bruhwiler (RadiaSoft LLC)
Description
Joint session between working groups 2 & 8:
WG2 - Computation for Accelerator Physics
WG8 - Advanced Laser and Beam Technology and Facilities
Detailed thermal modeling of crystal amplifiers is a prerequisite for rapid improvement—higher pulse quality, higher average power at maximum achievable peak intensity, better repeatability, etc.—of high-intensity lasers ($100~\mathrm{TW}$ to multi-PW) with ultra-short pulse lengths ($< 100~\mathrm{fs}$). In recent work [1], we used the open-source, finite-element code FEniCS [2] to solve the...
There is currently a lack of broadly available modeling software that self-consistently captures the required physics of gain, thermal loading and lensing, spectral shaping, and other effects required to simulate and optimize high-intensity lasers (100 TW to multi-PW) with ultra-short pulse lengths (< 100 fs) [1]. In recent work [2], we showed that low-resolution wavefront sensor (WFS) images...
