The first experiments at the international research center Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP)

By rbj
The first experiments at the international research center Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), for the study of the interaction of high power laser pulses with matter, started today, 18.03.2020, in the presence of the Secretary of State for Scientific Research in Romania, Dragos Ciuparu.
The experiment aims to study the nonlinear optical effects in solid materials in order to shorten the duration of laser pulses for nuclear physics research and related applications.
This first experiment is the result of the planning and research carried out by the ELI-NP team in the last four years, together with the team of Professor Gerard Mourou, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2018, from Ecole Politechnique, IZEST, France.
The ongoing experiment demonstrates the performance achieved by the operating team of ELI-NP and Thales, the supplier of the HPLS.