CLF CALTA Highlights

CALTA Highlights

Recent CALTA highlights include;

A new world record for DiPOLE100
A laser system designed and built by the Central Laser Facility has achieved another world record.
CALTA Scientist Receives Grant from Royal Society’s International Exchanges Scheme
CALTA scientist Dr Mariastefania De Vido (Stefania) has received funding from the Royal Society’s International Exchanges scheme to embark on a new project that could plant the seeds for advancements in high energy laser design and operation.
CALTA Scientists Visit ISTEC as Part of a Project to Develop Transparent YAG-based Ceramics for DiPOLE Lasers
On the 20th and 21st October, CALTA scientists visited the CNR Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics (ISTEC) in Italy to collaborate on the development of YAG-based transparent ceramics.
D100X exceeds all expectations on first experiment
DiPOLE100X (D100X), a laser we were recently commissioned to build, has smashed all expectations during its first official experiment at the European XFEL in Hamburg, Germany.
D100-X reaches 70 J, 1 Hz milestone during commissioning at XFEL
A team of scientists and engineers working on the D100-X project at the European XEFL in Hamburg reached the important commissioning milestone of 70 J laser output at 1 Hz on 16th June 2022.
Funding confimed for CLF-Czech partnership
Funding confirmed for major CLF-Czech partnership for 'next generation' laser centre
Laser Peening to Strengthen Ceramics used in Hip Replacements
Recent research using DiPOLE has shown laser shock peening can improve the toughness of silicon nitride ceramics for use in applications such as hip replacements and rocket nozzles for the space industry.
Laser Shock Peening - Can it improve Tokamak Reactor Lifetime by enhancing Tungsten Divertors?
Scientists used the CLF DiPOLE10 laser system to investigate Laser Shock Peening of tungsten, a metal crucial to Tokamak-based fusion power research.
Mariastefania De Vido Wins MacFarlane Prize 2020
Mariastefania's work was noted by the panel to be; “an outstanding piece of research as indicated by the Examiners and an exemplar of the very high standards expected of MacFarlane Prize award winners."
New Record for CLF’s DiPOLE Technology
A new generation DiPOLE laser, delivering 10 J pulses at 100 Hz repetition rate (1 kW average power) has been developed and commissioned by the CALTA team at the CLF as part of the Widespread collaboration with HiLASE (Czech Republic).