On 14 and 15 April, the French partner CNRS organized the 4th general assembly meeting of THRILL at Sorbonne University in Paris and Palaiseau. This meeting was the last in-person meeting of the project and the occasion for the consortium to look out into the future. The first day[…]

The next THRILL Summer School will take place from 7 to 13 June 2026 at the Darmstädter Haus in Hirschegg, Austria. The focus of the school will be on Applications of High Energy / High Power Lasers. PhDs and early career scientists are invited to register through the event website before 15[…]

We’re thrilled to share that our latest research paper has been published: Coherent beam combining strategies for high-energy and high-repetition rate lasers dedicated to inertial nuclear fusion applications Pierre Lebegue, Marie Froidevaux, Jonas Benjamin Ohland, Cyril Rapeneau, Doina Badarau, Joanna de Sousa, Loïc Meignien, Ivan Doudet, Nolan Chan, Benoit[…]

Laser Engineers and Researchers teamed up for building the next generation of beam stabilization systems. The THRILL project continues to advance the frontier of adaptive optics (AO) technology with a dedicated hands-on training on Real-Time Computer (RTC) installation, held at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany. In mid-October,[…]

From 23-24 June 2025, the THRILL consortium gathered in Hamburg, Germany, for this year’s General Assembly, hosted by our partners at European XFEL. The meeting opened on Monday morning with a comprehensive status update by project coordinator Vincent Bagnoud, who reviewed key milestones, deliverables, and project highlights from recent[…]

A recent online workshop held on June 4, 2025, brought together the developers and potential users to present the current status and discuss the roadmap of the OPOSSUM (Open-source Optics Simulation System and Unified Modeler) software framework. Developed within the THRILL project, OPOSSUM aims to be a flexible, open-source[…]

Thrilled to share that Vincent Bagnoud had the opportunity to present the latest developments of our THRILL project at the Laserlab-Europe General Assembly, hosted at the STFC in Didcot, UK, on 14 May 2025. For more information on our project, follow us on LinkedIn!

The first online workshop on OPOSSUM – the Open Source Optics Simulation System and Unified Modeler – will take place on Wednesday, 4 June 2025, from 2-4 pm CEST via Zoom. The event will provide a first look at OPOSSUM, developed within the European THRILL project. Although still in[…]

The THRILL workshop on adaptive optics integration brought together leading scientists to address critical challenges in high-power laser control. The year 2025 began on a high note with the successful completion of the THRILL workshop, held on January 16, 2025, at the Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Organized[…]

On 18 December 2024, Jonas B. Ohland gave an online presentation on one of the technologies behind the THRILL project in his Laserlab-Europe talk “From Telescopes to Fusion Powerplants: Real-Time Adaptive Optics for High-Power Lasers”. Watch the recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAj0Gc22Hpk&t=4s Summary: The Apollon Real-Time Adaptive Optics (ARTAO) system addresses air[…]