Energy-saving, high-performance laser, plasma, and radiation technologies

• laser technologies based on energy-efficient fiber, disc, and hybrid lasers;
• materials research technologies for ultra-high temperature and pressure conditions (aerospace, nuclear technologies);
• technologies of new materials synthesis based on the resonant excitation of atoms and molecules by laser radiation that are inaccessible by other methods;
• new micro- and nanotechnologies for materials processing and creation of elements and mechatronics devices, electronics, and medicine;
• development of processing technology for the blades of gas turbine engines, and new heat-shielding materials;
• new methods of laser processing and modification of the superconducting current-carrying layers ensuring lossless power transmission;
• high-performance energy storage devices based on the new technology of laser-plasma modification of supercapacitors;
• compact (table-top) laser-plasma particle accelerators for proton therapy;
• development of radiation technologies involving accelerators;
• development of radiation technologies with high-power microwave fluxes.

Innovations

Organization of effective technology transfer in cooperation with industrial partners in areas of semiconductor-, fiber- lasers, laser and plasma devices and facilities, development of advanced additive technologies.

Partners

IPG Photonics, GPI RAS, LPI RAS, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) (Germany), University of Lyon (France), Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT (Germany)

 

High-power lasers, extreme light fields, environment-friendly energy production by the controlled nuclear fusion

• Laboratory astrophysics: energy and diagnostic capabilities of the system outperform the capacities of traditional kilojoule systems that will expand the range of experiments in this area, as compared with current activities.
• Laser fusion: generation of shock waves under the action of a laser pulse with a time shaped intensity, study of the equation of state of matter and the generation of soft X-ray radiation with respect to the exposure conditions in megajoule-level installations.
• Laser source of protons. The proposed laser complex will have sufficient power to produce beams of protons with energies up to 100 MeV. One of the most promising applications of the laser acceleration of protons is to create quasi-monoenergetic source with high intensity for oncologic therapy.
• Relativistic laser-plasma, X-ray generation
• Physics of shock waves. The energy parameters of the laser are sufficient for complex studies of phase and chemical transformations taking place in the material at pressures of a few hundred or more megabars (more than 108 atm)
• Creating a coherent source of ultraviolet and soft X-rays. Sources of UV and XUV radiation based on the effect of high harmonic laser generation are now widely used in the experiments, including attosecond optics. Advantages offered by the proposed laser system will allow achieving high degree of coherence and higher intensity UV and XUV radiation as compared with those obtained presently.

Innovations

• Materials' research technologies at extreme conditions of temperature and pressure (aerospace, nuclear technologies);
• R&D within the framework of Russian Mega Science laser of MJ energy level
• R&D within the framework of cooperation for establishment of the Russian tokamak volume neutron source and the Kazakhstan tokamak KTM

Partners:

RFNC VNIIEF, LPI RAS, GPI RAS, NRC “Kurchatov institute”, GSI Darmstadt Germany, FZJ Uelich, Germany, NNC of Republic of Kazakhstan

 

Optical information processing, radiophotonics, optical, laser, and quantum metrology

• radiophotonic broadband signal processing system
• precise laser and quantum measurements;
• laser cooling of atoms;
• optical, atomic, nuclear frequency and time standards;
• measurement of fundamental constants (the fine structure constant, the gravitational constant) and verification of the foundations of the cosmological effects of general relativity;
• quantum phenomena in solid state physics;
• remote detection of new oil and gas condensate deposits, deposits of rare earth elements on the basis of precise measurements with the use of highly stable frequency standards of the gravitational field of the Earth;
• remote environmental monitoring and cleaning of the environment using laser and plasma technologies.

Partners

VNIIFTRI, LPI RAS, JIHT RAS, PTB (Germany), MPQ (Germany), NIST (USA)