Ultrafast and intense laser metrology

• Master laser field representation
• Understand the many laser field parameters (energetic, spatial, temporal, spectral, spatio-temporal, …)
• Review up-to-date laser metrology techniques
• Train on common metrology techniques during hands on sessions
• Interact directly with the many industrial partners in charge with the trainings
• Build a network of users within the European community and exchange knowledge and how-to among the participants. Initiate collaborations.

• Users or designers of high intensity/high energy/high average power lasers
• Technicians, Engineers, Researchers
• Undergraduate and PhD students

• Theoretical background
• Practice and Lab
• Computation and simulations

Pr Eric CORMIER – CELIA, Bordeaux University, PYLA

• Laser Architecture
• Basic concepts:
  • Ultrashort and intense laser sources
  • Laser field representation
  • Laser parameters
  • Linear and non-linear optics

  Measurement methods:

  • Energy (Photodiode, pyroelectric, thermopile)
  • Spectral (wavemeter, Fabry-Perot, monochromator, imaging spectrometer, FTIR, …)
  • Temporal (Autocorrelation, FROG-type, SPIDER-type, D-Scan, Wizzler, CEP, …)
  • Spatial (Knife-edge, CCD, …, M², Shack-Hartman, multilateral interferometry, …)
  • Spatio-temporal couplings (Termite, …)

  Special cases:

  • THz characterization
  • XUV/attosecond pulse characterization

  Lab work:

  • Time-frequency duality (simulations)
  • SNLO (simulations)
  • Spatial propagation (simulations)
  • Energy, power, intensity
  • Spectral measurements (calibration, resolution)
  • Temporal (Autoco, SPIDER, Wizzler, FROG, D-Scan, …)
  • Spatial (Shack-Hatmann, multi-lateral shearing interferometry, Knife-edge, M²)
  • Spatio-temporal (simulations)
  • THz (characterization)