Part 3
Projects & Landmarks
Physical Sciences & Engineering / Landmark

ELI ERIC

Extreme Light Infrastructure
description

The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) is the world’s largest and most advanced high-power laser Infrastructure and a global technology and innovation leader in high-power, high-intensity, and short-pulsed laser systems. The international user facility ELI accomodates some of the most intense lasers in the world. ELI’s lasers produce ultra-short pulses of high energy photons, electrons, protons, neutrons, muons and neutrinos in the (sub-) attosecond regimes on demand. In terms of research, ELI’s lasers enable a broad range of discovery possibilities from pioneering research in physics to applications and engineering. As the technology develops and spreads, ELI will become one of the more cost-effective means to conduct ‘big science’ in physics, biology, medicine and materials science.

In the ESFRI Roadmap since 2006, ELI established the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in 2021. The ELI ERIC is currently participated by four Members and two Observers, and is responsible for making the ELI facilities available to the scientific community as a single international organisation, with unified governance and management. ELI ERIC consists of two facilities hosting operational world-class high-power, high-repetitionrate laser systems, specialised in different fields of research with extreme light beams: the ELI-Beamlines in Dolní Břežany (Czech Republic) with the ERIC Statutory seat, and the ELI-ALPS for Attosecond Physics in Szeged (Hungary). The forthcoming third facility ELI-NP for Nuclear Physics is under commissioning in Măgurele (Romania).

General Info
headquarters

ELI ERIC
Dolní Břežany,
Czech Republic

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distributed

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