Background

This project was started as a task within the THRILL project and is meanwhile also supported by further projects (e.g. LASE-FUSE); see Funding & Acknowledgments for the full list and per-project attribution. The THRILL acronym stands for Technology for High-Repetition-rate Intense Laser Laboratories and is a project funded by the European Union.

Within the THRILL project, this task (3.4) has the title “supporting calculations for system design” and is led by GSI. The task description from the proposal is as follows:

[…] To strengthen the design decisions and later benchmark the system performance, the use of theoretical modelling is of vital importance. It exists a number of simulation tools for certain aspects of the laser chain (broadband generation, nonlinear frequency conversion and amplification, laser amplification, dispersion management, wavefront propagation, calculation of parasitic lasing, etc.) distributed among the project partners (GSI, FZU/ELI-BL, HZDR, CNRS-LULI) and in the wider community. In this task, we will gather calculations with the aim to make them accessible to the partners as well as to the wider community. For this purpose a common platform for input and output formats possibly with suitable interfaces will be developed. […]

The project has a funding period of four years. The more specific goals and the project structure will be discussed in the following.