Japan - ELI Joint Workshop on
Collboration in High Power Laser Science and Technology
DateMonday, 17 April 2023

Venue

PACIFICO Yokohama Conference Centre (Room 303)

Organized by
ILE: Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University
ELI: Extreme Light Infrastructure
Co-organized by
KPSI: Kansai Photon Science Institute, National Institutes for Quantum Science andTechnology
OPIC: OPTICS & PHOTONICS International Council
Supported by
MEXT: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, JapanELI ERIC: Extreme Light Infrastructure European Research Infrastructure Consortium
Sponsored by
OKAMOTO OPTICS, Inc.
PROGRAM(The number in parentheses is the presentation time in minutes, including Q&A.)
I.

Welcome

9:00

Opening remarks/welcome

Andrew HARRISON / Director ofScience, ELI ERIC
Yoshiaki KATO / Congress Co-Chair,OPIC 2023

9:10Japanese Ministry

Ichiro KURONUMA / Director,
University Research Facilitation
Division, Research Promotion
Bureau, MEXT
Gediminas RAMANAUSKAS / Head ofScience, Innovation, Digital, andOther EU Policies Section, Delegationof the European Union to Japan
Ondrej SVOBODA, Ph. D., Deputy Head,
Political and Trade Section, Embassyof the Czech Republic
H. E. Norbert PALANOVICS, Ph. D.,
Ambassador Extraordinary andPlenipotentiary of HungaryH. E. Ovidiu DRANGA, Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary ofRomania

European Union

Czech RepublicHungaryRomania

II.

Opportunities for Japan-ELI Collaboration in Science
1. Research initiatives
Chair: Yoshiaki KATO

9:50
10:10

Introduction to Japanese initiative(20)Introduction to ELI initiative (20)

10:30

Ryosuke KODAMA / ILE, Osaka U.
Roman HVEZDA / ELI BL

Coffee/networking break
2. High energy density science and applications

10:50

11:35

Japan

Chair: Akifumi YOGO

Study of a laser-plasma interaction
around extreme astrophysicalobjects: Induced Compton
scattering in laboratory (15)
Neutron resonance spectroscopy bylaser-driven neutron sources (15)

Shuta TANAKA / Aoyama Gakuin U.

Magnetized high-energy-density
physics experiment for laserdriven inertial fusion energy (15)Shinsuke FUJIOKA / ILE, Osaka U.

ELI

Chair: Sergei BULANOV

Novel plasma accelerators andapplications in radiation therapyand material inspections (15)Laser Plasma Physics and provision
for laser-driven fusion (15)ELI NP towards 10 PW laser sciencein unknown territory (15)Daniele MARGARONE / ELI BL

12:20

Takehito HAYAKAWA / QST-KPSI

Stefan WEBER / ELI BL
Domenico DORIA / ELI NP

Lunch
3. High field and ultrafast science and applications

13:20

Japan

Chair: Ryoichi HAJIMA /QST-KPSI

High-field science at KPSI-QST – laser Masaki KANDO / QST-KPSI
acceleration and coherent x-ray
generation (15)
Searches for dark matter with 10TW Kensuke HOMMA / Hiroshima U.
and beyond (15)The third-generation table-top
Katsumi MIDORIKAWA / RIKEN
attosecond light sources (15)

14:05ELI

Chair: Daniele MARGARONE / ELI BL

High field ultrafast science andtechnology at ELI-ALPS: roadmap
to applications (15)
Beyond the horizon of petawatt
physics (15)Subhendu KAHALY / ELI ALPS

14:35

Coffee/networking break
III.

14:55

Sergei BULANOV / ELI BL

Opportunities for Japan-ELI Collaboration in Technology

Needs and opportunities in industry Chair: Roman HVEZDA / ELI BL(Topics)
Advanced optics for high power
lasers (10)Transparent ceramics for high power
laser (10)Repetitive high-energy solid-statelaser (10)Semiconductor X-ray metrology (10)High-power ultrashort-pulse laser(10)Takuya MIKAMI / OKAMOTO OpticsDaichi MORIMOTO / KONOSHIMA
ChemicalToshiyuki KAWASHIMA / Hamamatsu
Photonics
Kazuhiko OMOTE / RIGAKU
Guillaume THIBAULT / Thales

Panel discussion (35)IV.

Conclusion

16:20

Concluding remarks

Andrew HARRISON / ELI ERIC
Ryosuke KODAMA / ILE, Osaka U.

17:30

Reception

InterContinental Yokohama Grand(Jointly with OPIC Get-together)(Adjacent to Pacifico Yokohama)
3F Pacific room