Well, yesterday I visited RRCAT for completing the formalities and paperwork to get started and met my Supervisors. In brief the update is that they are now setting up the building for a 100 TW Laser Facility which is some really good news for India!
Secondly, Dr. B. S. Rao who works on Laser Plasma Wakefield Accelerators is returning end-of-week so I will be reporting to him on Monday. He will be briefing me and also providing me with papers and review articles! As part of my Project I will be working on both nano-second and femto-second Laser-Plasma Interactions as the interactions at both the timescales different and worthy of study.
I also hear that a famous Russian scientist will also be joining us early next week. Not to mention I will be working with Mr. Vipul Arora who currently has the laser-time on the 10 TW laser for the next three weeks to understand the fundamentals and other working details. Another student from my University Aprit is working under Dr. Rao and possibly on LWFAs so I should stay in touch with him.
Last week LWFA results have been pretty good and we achieved 50 MeV over a distance of 200 micro-m.
I will also need to study about lasers, focusing optics, properties of the beam, diagnostics, off-axis parabola, refractive and reflective optics (both advantages and working).
There is also a meeting every day at 9:30 a in Dr. Naik's office which typically lasts till 10:15 a where the progress of the last day and the agenda for the day is discussed with him so daily progress is monitored. No wonder if I am one of the participating members if I am working on the laser, then at least two of the members should go and get the laser ready while the third one attends the meeting.
Rest, I will have access to a chair-table and a common computer in a study room which I haven't seen today but I will see later. Bye and more later.
As usual, I have exams and its difficult to be able to take a nap! Thanks.
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