We are thrilled to share that all of our THRILL Project partners met last week in the beautiful city of Prague for their annual General Assembly. All work package and task leaders provided updates on their recent progress. The presentations let to engaging discussions and productive exchanges, setting the stage for a successful[…]

“Trust your own ideas!” With our series #WomeninScience, we will portrait the female scientific staff working on THRILL. They tell us about their roles in our project, what inspires them about their work and their experiences as a woman in science. Meet our second guest, Zsuzsanna Major, staff scientist at GSI (Gesellschaft für[…]

30 students from eight European countries have participated in the first summer school organised by the THRILL Project, held from 7-11 October at the Belambra Resort on the stunning Giens peninsula in the south of France. The goal of the programme was to raise awareness and to provide cutting-edge training on technologies related[…]

Today, we are thrilled to share that within the WP4 effort of THRILL project, the ELI-Beamlines team joined by GSI and HZDR teams, carried out a detailed study to assess the performance of the ATON 180 mm and 300 mm aperture amplifier types at different repetition rates (1 shot per 1 min, 2[…]

The ICUIL conference series is a taking place every other year, while rotating between Europe, North America and Asia. It is one of the most important conferences for the field of high-intensity high-energy lasers and we are proud to be well represented at the conference, where the THRILL team is presenting 2 invited[…]

As part of THRILL Task 5.3, a workshop on adaptive optics integration will be held in conjunction with the LPA Special Workshop on Intelligent Systems from 13-16 January 2025 at the University of Oxford. This in-person event will host a larger community interested in topics related to machine learning, optimization, automation, and system[…]

The developers are happy to announce the release v0.5.0 of the optic design / simulation software OPOSSUM! Over the past four releases, many concepts and features have been worked out. Meanwhile, the software can already be used for simulating real-life optical models. However, since the software still lacks a real user interface (it’s[…]

The EU funded project THRILL organises a summer school on laser technology for high-energy lasers from 7 to 11 October 2024 in Hyères, France. Focus topics will be: – laser architecture and laser amplification– diagnostics and beam quality control– AI in optimization and control– optical coating technologies The school will alternate lectures and[…]

It’s time to look back on our achievements and highlights from the first 12 months of the THRILL project! Since the start of THRILL, we have already seen some encouraging early results, from promising tests and experiments to our first publication and the end-user workshop in October. All work packages are up and[…]

The developers are happy to announce the release v0.4.0 of the optic design / simulation software OPOSSUM. While the software is still in an early design / development phase and not really usable in daily work, many new features have been added. Here are some of the highlights. 1          Improved ray tracing capabilities[…]

On 27 and 28 February, a workshop to kick-off Task 5.4 of the THRILL project brought together laser operators and experts from ELI beamlines, GSI, HIJ, HZDR and LULI to share their approaches to laser-operations data acquisition and laser control. The workshop’s participants also took the opportunity to discuss where Machine Learning (ML)[…]

“Be confident, you can do it!” With the start of our series #WomeninScience, we will portrait the female scientific staff working on THRILL. They tell us about their roles in our project, what inspires them about their work and their experiences as a woman in science. Meet our first guest, Shaimaa Abdalbaqi, Researcher[…]

The developers are happy to announce the release v0.3.0 of the optic design / simulation software OPOSSUM. While the software is still in an early design / development phase and not really usable in daily work, many new features have been added. This work is part of the task 3.4 (“Supporting calculations for[…]

GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, as coordinator of the THRILL project, welcomes three new members to the project: the Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC (ELI-ERIC), the University of Rochester and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). Thanks to an amendment to the project, which the European Commission validated recently, the ELI-ERIC and the University[…]

An innovative laser beam optimization technique, named “Zernike-coefficient Extraction via Helical Beam Reconstruction for Optimization” (ZEHBRO), has been presented in a recent publication released in the journal “High Power Laser Science and Engineering” by THRILL researchers. In the pursuit for higher beam quality in Work Package 5 (“Beam Transport and Beam Quality“), the[…]

From 24 to 27 October, 2023, the beautiful setting of Wasem’s Engelthal Monastery in Ingelheim (Germany) became a hub of innovation and collaboration for the high-energy laser community. The four days were a great opportunity to review the progress made in each work package and task, and to exchange views and ideas on[…]

At the end of October, the first THRILL end-user workshop will take place in Ingelheim, Germany. It will offer presentations and discussions of interesting physics being investigated at currently available facilities. The main goal of this workshop is for the high-energy laser community to discuss the expectations for the next generation of lasers[…]

The THRILL (Technology for High-Repetition-rate Intense Laser Laboratories) project received more than ten million euro of funding in the framework of the European Union’s HORIZON EUROPE program. The project aims at providing new designs and high-performance components for high-energy high-repetition-rate lasers, enabling the technical readiness level required to specify and build the needed[…]