Paper 12582-15
Paper 12582-15
LWFA-based x-ray machine to respond to strategic challenges (Invited Paper)
On demand | Presented live 26 April 2023 
Abstract
We present the recent progress done at the Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) on the development of a Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA) based X-ray machine. We will describe the pathway we follow to progress towards an industrial solution guided by the concept of Solution Readiness Level (SRL) metric. Two different approaches have been recently studied and assessed to optimize the X-ray beam in the 20keV - 50keV range. This paves the way to the development of a laser-based X-ray machine addressing, with different working points, various strategic challenges. We discuss in the present work the usefulness of the various operational approaches for some aspects of Global Food Security and for the realization of mammography with dose well below the actual clinical standard.
Presenter
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Canada)
Jean Claude Kieffer is Professor at INRS since 1990. He was the Canada Research Chair in Ultrafast photonics applied to complex systems from 2002 to 2016. He established in 2002 the Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) facility in Varennes (Qc), which is the laser Canadian National infrastructure.
Jean Claude Kieffer is member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), of the Canadian Association of Physicist (CAP) and of the SPIE. He is fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada.
His research interests include plasma physics, ultrafast lasers, high intensity laser-matter interaction, particle acceleration and ultrafast x-ray sources. Professor Kieffer has been developing throughout his career laser-based systems for societal and industrial applications, for early breast cancer detection, Global Food Security and Homeland security.