High peak power lasers, high pulse energy lasers and applications (1)

[ALPS1-02(Invited)] The ZEUS Scientific User Facility at the University of Michigan

*Igor Jovanovic¹, Andre Antoine¹, Junwoo Bae¹, Mario Balcazar¹, Franko Bayer¹, Milos Burger¹, Paul Campbell¹, Jason Cardarelli¹, Veronica Contreras¹, Nicholas Ernst¹, Rebecca Fitzgarrald¹, Bixue Hou¹, Galina Kalinchenko¹, Salee Klein¹, Karl Krushelnick¹, Carolyn Kuranz¹, Joshua Latham¹, William Likes¹, Yong Ma¹, Anatoly Maksimchuk¹, Andrew McKelvey¹, John Nees¹, Tanner Nutting¹, Elizabeth Oxford¹, Alexander Thomas¹, Richard Van Camp¹, Lauren Weinberg¹, Louise Willingale¹, Qing Zhang¹ (1. University of Michigan)

The new dual-beamline 3 PW Zettawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System (ZEUS) is under commissioning. ZEUS features three target areas and recently started experimental operations as a user facility open to the international scientific community.