High-Power Laser Science Collaboratory

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该合同支持一个改造项目，提供基础设施改进，将现有的极光实验室扩展成一个多学科共享的核心设施，即高功率激光科学合作实验室（HPLSC）。它将容纳一个具有独特新功能的新型多太瓦激光器（由UNL物理学家利用空军科学研究办公室现有的300万美元投资建造）和五个实验室，以支持激光科学研究人员。HPLSC将进一步推动相对论性光学和强相对论性非线性光学的研究，预计将导致对光学物理学的更深入理解，以及新型极端辐射源和先进加速器的发展。新激光器的带宽为1-100keV，将为表征材料的电子结构提供独特的机会，并为其物理特性提供新的见解。HPLSC将使UNL能够将这些独特能力的使用扩展到致力于开发分子、光学、等离子体和核物理、材料科学和生物医学应用的内部和外部跨学科团队。HPLSC将为物理、工程、化学和生物化学领域的下一代研究人员提供研究和培训机会，并初步扩大到10名教员研究人员、10名博士后研究人员、29名研究生和13名本科生。HPLSC附属研究人员积极参与UNL的努力，通过为本科生和研究生提供有意义的研究机会，扩大科学和工程的参与，重点是增加机会，代表性不足的群体。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports a renovation project to provide infrastructure improvements needed to expand the existing Extreme Light Laboratory into a multi-disciplinary shared core facility, the High Power Laser Science Collaboratory (HPLSC). It will house a new multi-terawatt laser with distinct new capabilities (built by UNL physicists using an existing $3 million investment from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research) and five laboratories to support laser science investigators. The HPLSC will further enable investigations in relativistic optics and strongly relativistic nonlinear optics, anticipated to result in a deeper understanding of optical physics and the development of novel extreme radiation sources and advanced accelerators. The new laser's bandwidth of 1-100keV will provide unique opportunities to characterize the electronic structure of materials and provide new insight into their physical properties. The HPLSC will enable UNL to extend the use of these unique capabilities to internal and external interdisciplinary teams working on the development of applications in molecular, optical, plasma and nuclear physics, materials science and biomedicine. The HPLSC will provide research and training opportunities for the next generation of researchers in physics, engineering, chemistry and biochemistry, and initially extend access to 10 faculty researchers, 10 postdoctoral researchers, 29 graduate students and 13 undergraduate students. HPLSC affiliated researchers actively participate in UNL efforts to broaden participation in science and engineering by offering meaningful research opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students, with a focus on increasing opportunities underrepresented groups.