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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]