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ASTRA

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Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK OX11 0QX
phone: +44 1235 821900
fax: +44 1235 445808
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10 mJ, 50 fs, 1 TW, 800 nm, 10 Hz
20 TW, 10 Hz, 10²¹ W cm^-2 (upgrade)
Ti:Sapphire, CPA

Schematics
Optical table. From ASTRA upgrade, operational by end of 1999
Optical table (Professor Henry Hutchinson, Director, CLF on right) from LEA (CLF+LULI) Meets at RAL
Target chamber diagram (side view). From target facilities
Target chamber diagram (top view). From target facilities
Target area - Phase I experiment (see also smaller JPG version of this image)
Target area after first experiment, laser interaction with a pulsed beam of hydrogen ions (December 1998). Photo shows groups from University College of London, lead by Dr Roy Newell and Queens’ University, Belfast, lead by Dr Ian Williams. From First astra experiment

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