ICAN Symposium | Can the future of accelerators be fibers? | 27-28 June

The International Coherent Amplification Network (ICAN) will be holding a symposium on new fiber-based accelerator concepts at CERN, from 27 to 28 June 2013.

Concluding its EU-supported feasibility study, the ICAN Consortium reported on a revolutionary laser architecture that could for the first time accelerate particles to very high energy, at high repetition rate with good wall-plug efficiency. To highlight this new possibility - and illustrating the vitality and leadership of European science, the École Polytechnique (France), the Optoelectronics Research Centre (UK), the University of Jena (Germany) and CERN are organising an ICAN symposium where details of this novel laser architecture will be presented. The ICAN symposium will be held at CERN from 27 to 28 June in the presence of colleagues from institutes and industry to discuss the status of the research and prepare the groundwork for a HORIZON 2020 proposal.

For the full ICAN meeting schedule, click here.
For more information about ICAN, see the Bulletin article: “Laser Acceleration… now with added fibre”.