Upcoming and past NSF OPAL meetings and events.
Join the team for a live briefing and Q&A covering the latest technical and collaborative milestones, including: laser facility updates, experimental systems, project timelines, and community highlights.
Whether you are a potential user, a collaborator, or a student, this is your chance to get the latest information and ask questions directly to the NSF OPAL team.
Goals of the workshop
The Multi-Petawatt Diagnostics Community Workshop will bring together scientists, engineers, and facility leaders engaged in the development and application of diagnostics for next-generation multi-petawatt (MPW) laser systems.
The workshop will provide a forum to:
This workshop is designed to strengthen collaboration across the high-intensity laser community and to guide future research directions and investments in diagnostic capabilities.
During this event, the Project Team provided an update to the community about the status of the facility design following the Conceptual Design Review (CDR) held in April.
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The NSF OPAL RI-1 award supports the design of a new, world-leading, high-power laser user facility at the University of Rochester.
Two new 25-petawatt lasers will push beyond the current state of the art in peak laser power to achieve and study extreme physical conditions, such as ultrahigh electromagnetic fields, temperatures, and pressures that represent the frontier of science in studying matter in the Universe.
NSF OPAL aims to support four areas of frontier research identified by the Multi-Petawatt Physics Prioritization (MP3) workshop.
This 3-hour session will provide an update on key aspects of the NSF OPAL diagnostic systems design.
Given by NSF OPAL Lead Laser Scientist Jake Bromage, this talk will present an overview of the proposed laser architecture and cutting-edge technologies of the NSF OPAL system. Key achievements and future prospects of the MTW-OPAL facility, which has been crucial to prototyping many of the technologies necessary for the future NSF OPAL construction project, will also be highlighted.
An update for the scientific community on key aspects of the NSF OPAL design.
A review of the top-level NSF OPAL requirements for the scientific community.