Funding & Acknowledgments
OPOSSUM is developed as open-source research software and is financed through
several externally funded projects. This page documents which project funds
which part of the work, so that funders and third parties can trace individual
contributions. Contributions are also attributed per person (with ORCID) in the
CITATION.cff
file at the repository root, which powers GitHub’s “Cite this repository”
button.
Funding sources
| THRILL | LASE-FUSE | |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Technology for High-Repetition-rate Intense Laser Laboratories | LAser Simulation for Enhanced FUSion Efficiency |
| Funder | European Union | German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) |
| Grant / funding reference | grant agreement No 101095207 | funding reference 13F1041 |
| Duration | 4 years (Task 3.4, led by GSI) | 5 years |
| Group | GSI (Plasma physics group / PHELIX) | GSI Plasma physics group / LASE-FUSE |
| Work during funding period | Project start; core graph model and ray-tracing capabilities | Graphical User Interface, amplification modeling, material catalogue |
The GitHub Milestones group the tracked work; the “Work during funding period” row links each funding source to the milestones and features it financed, making a group’s contribution concretely traceable.
THRILL
OPOSSUM was started as a task within the THRILL project, a project funded by the European Union. Within THRILL, this task (3.4) has the title “supporting calculations for system design” and is led by GSI. The task description from the proposal reads:
[…] 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. […]
Acknowledgment statement:
This project has received funding from the European Union under grant agreement No 101095207.
LASE-FUSE
Continued development is supported by LASE-FUSE (LAser Simulation for Enhanced FUSion Efficiency), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and carried out by the GSI Plasma physics group by Yannik Zobus.
Acknowledgment statement:
This work is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) within the LASE-FUSE project (funding reference 13F1041).
How to cite
If you use OPOSSUM, please cite it using the metadata in
CITATION.cff
(GitHub’s “Cite this repository” button exports BibTeX/APA automatically), and
acknowledge the funding sources above where appropriate.