Laserlab-Europe Talks
Laserlab-Europe represents outstanding scientific and technical skills and world-leading know-how which is distributed among its partners.
Laserlab-Europe Talks, a series of online events on a variety of topics (thematic or research-specific) of common interest, are providing a platform for regular information exchange and knowledge sharing on these skills and know-how. Interested scientists in the respective field, inside and outside the network, are invited to participate.
The talks take place once a month on Wednesday afternoon on Zoom.
Upcoming Laserlab-Europe Talks
Previous Laserlab-Europe Talks
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Revealing bacterial subcellular structure with three-dimensional multicolour super-resolution microscopy
Speaker: Chiara Caldini (LENS) Cellular compartmentalization is the separation of the cellular interior into distinct compartments, each with specific conditions and materials, that enable the simultaneous execution of different metabolic processes. […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Laser-surface processing for green Hydrogen and energy storage applications
Speaker: Panagiotis A. Loukakos (IESL-FORTH) In this talk I will present our recent work on the application of laser-surface processing in the fabrication of nanostructured metallic electrodes. These electrodes have […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: From Telescopes to Fusion Powerplants: Real-Time Adaptive Optics for High-Power Lasers
Speaker: Jonas B. Ohland (GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research) The Apollon Real-Time Adaptive Optics (ARTAO) system addresses air turbulence-induced Strehl ratio fluctuations in Apollon, the 10 PW Ti:Sapphire […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Compressive Raman imaging: a computational framework for high-speed chemical microscopy
Speaker: Hilton B. de Aguiar (CNRS, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel and Ecole Normale Superieure) Raman imaging is recognized as a powerful label-free approach to provide contrasts based on chemical selectivity. Nevertheless, […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Next generation time-domain diffuse optics using superconducting nanowire detectors
Speaker: Lisa Kobayashi (ICFO, Spain) Diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) is an established diffuse optical method which non-invasively measures regional, microvascular blood flow from laser speckles. Although the utility of DCS […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Laser illumination in classical and super-resolution multicolor microscopy
Speaker: Adrien Mau (Abbelight, France) Microscopy is the art of observation of the infinitely small. However, one cannot observe an object without collecting light from it, and thus first sending […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Attosecond interferometry
Speaker: Nirit Dudovich (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) High harmonic generation (HHG) spectroscopy has been successfully applied over the past two decades to resolve fundamental strong-field phenomena in atoms, molecules […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Radiation sources based on laser plasma interaction and applications in materials science
Speaker: Teresa Cebriano Ramírez (CLPU, Spain) The CLPU operates VEGA, a multi Terawatt laser system composed by three independent and synchronized 30 fs long pulses: VEGA-3 of 1 PW (at […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Lasers, related radiation sources and diagnostics at ENEA-Frascati for applications to material science, radiation hardness of materials and components
Speaker: Fabrizio Consoli (ENEA, Italy) The ENEA-Centro Ricerche Frascati has a very long-standing tradition on lasers and applications. The first laser operated here in the ‘60s, just after the first […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Some representative results on planetology of laboratory at LULI
Speaker: Alessandra Benuzzi-Mounaix (CNRS-LULI, France) While the number of exoplanets detected is growing at such an incredible pace as to make them a new class of astrophysical objects, the physical […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Towards sustainability by applications of laser processing
Speaker: Juraj Sládek (HiLASE, Czech Republic) Laser material processing, aside from cutting and welding applications, is also applicable for advanced surface modification of a broad range of materials. This includes […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Multi-pass cells – quasi-guiding systems for laser pulse post-compression and advanced nonlinear optics
Speaker: Christoph Heyl (DESY, Germany) Nonlinear multi-pass cells (MPCs) have brought exciting opportunities to the field of ultrafast optics, ranging from major advances in post-compressed ultrafast lasers to novel frequency […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Multimodal and Multiscalar Hyperspectral Imaging
Speaker: Alessia Candeo (POLIMI, Italy) Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is a powerful technique that couples optical imaging with spectroscopy, allowing for the acquisition of spatially resolved spectral data from a sample. […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Scientific fundamentals and practice of Photoacoustic Tomography
Speaker: Fábio A. Schaberle (CLL, Portugal) Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is based on the absorption of light by endogenous or exogenous molecules – organic or inorganic – and the subsequent generation […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Time-resolving energy dissipation pathways in materials
Speaker: Jens Biegert (ICFO, Spain) A standing challenge in material and molecular sciences is identifying how excitation dissipates. Jens Biegert will show that attosecond soft x-ray spectroscopy provides a powerful […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: RGB lasers in dermatology and endoscopy
Speaker: Janis Spigulis (University of Latvia)RGB lasers that emit simultaneously three spectral lines (red, green and blue) are gaining increased applications, mainly related to color projections and color TV. Thanks […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: A multi-MeV Alpha Particle Source via Proton-Boron fusion driven by a 10-GW Tabletop Laser
Speaker: Valeria Istokskaia (ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic) Nuclear fusion between protons and boron-11 nuclei has undergone a revival of interest thanks to the rapid progress in pulsed laser technology. Potential […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Towards the detection of vacuum birefringence
Speaker: Gerhard Paulus (Helmholtz Institute Jena, Germany) Strong electromagnetic fields polarize vacuum such that it becomes birefringent. Not surprisingly, the effect is tiny, even if petawatt-class lasers are used for inducing […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Complex molecules in stellar nurseries
Speaker: Sandra Bruenken (FELIX Laboratory, Netherlands) Complex organic molecules, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), are found in a large variety of astronomical environments, including low temperature and low density molecular […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Extreme plasma physics with lasers and in astro
Speaker: Luis Silva (IST, Portugal) Many extreme astrophysical scenarios share common underlying microphysics with laboratory scenarios with relativistic particle beams and ultra-intense lasers. In these conditions, collective plasma effects driven […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Dual Comb Spectroscopy for Electronic Fingerprint Spectroscopy
Speaker: Birgitta Schultze-Bernhardt (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Dual Comb Spectroscopy combines high spectral resolution with broad spectral coverage and short measurement times. In the recent years, this spectroscopic method has […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: KiMoPack – A python Package for Kinetic Modeling of the Chemical Mechanism
Speaker: Jens Uhlig (Lund University, Sweden) Jens Uhlig (Lund University, Sweden) will present KiMoPack, an analysis tool for the kinetic modeling of transient spectroscopic data. KiMoPack enables a state-of-the-art analysis […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Laser microscopy for the study of infectious disease
Speaker: Dave Clarke (CLF, UK) Infectious diseases of humans, animals, and plants have very significant societal and economic impacts. The COVID-19 pandemic is an obvious example, and another major threat […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Investigations of Laser-Plasma Interaction and hot electron generation in Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion: approaching to the Shock Ignition irradiation regime
Speaker: Gabriele Cristoforetti (INO-CNR, Italy) One of the main concerns of Shock Ignition (SI) scheme to Inertial Confinement Fusion is the growth of parametric instabilities in the plasma corona, such […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: AI for X-ray scattering
Speaker: Nico Hoffmann (HZDR, Germany) The long term and sustainable success of the X-ray community essentially depends on its ability to meet growing challenges in handling and analyzing data of […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Matterwave Optics as a key Quantum Technology
Speaker: Wolf von Klitzing (ULF-FORTH, Greece) The famous particle-wave duality states that all particles are waves and all waves are particles. Most of us are aware of the fact that […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Adapting to an emerging pandemic to find a role for medical optics in COVID-19 patients and more
Speaker: Turgut Durduran (ICFO, Spain) When COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns started, we sought to evaluate whether our technologies for evaluating tissue oxygen metabolism and hermodynamics with photonics could be helpful. A […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Ignition, a dream that came true
Speaker: Sébastien le Pape (CNRS-LULI, France) Fusion energy has been the driving force in the High Energy Density (HED) community for more than fifty years but especially since the start […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Lasers and batteries
Optical spectroscopy of battery degradation - Optical spectroscopy of materials for batteries - Laser micro/nano fabrication of materials for energy storage applications We are pleased to announce the Laserlab-Europe Talks […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Next Generation imaging and image-guided diagnosis and therapy for cancer
Time domain multiwavelength diffuse optics in breast cancer management - Theranostics with photoacoustic tomography and photosensitisers - Multimodal photoacoustic imaging of tumor angiogenesis We are pleased to announce the Laserlab-Europe […]
Laserlab-Europe Talk: Multi-photon 3D lithography for sub-100 nm additive manufacturing of inorganics
Speaker: Mangirdas Malinauskas (VULRC, Lithuania) 3D micro-/nano-structures enables miniaturization and enhancement of functionalities and integrations of devices for the fields of photonics, microfluidics, micromechanics, microelectronics, and microoptics. Multi-photon lithography (also […]