The Centre for Advanced Laser Applications in Garching,Germany,is home to the ATLAS-3000 multi-petawatt laser,dedicated to research on laser particle acceleration and its applications.A control system based on Tango C...The Centre for Advanced Laser Applications in Garching,Germany,is home to the ATLAS-3000 multi-petawatt laser,dedicated to research on laser particle acceleration and its applications.A control system based on Tango Controls is implemented for both the laser and four experimental areas.The device server approach features high modularity,which,in addition to the hardware control,enables a quick extension of the system and allows for automated data acquisition of the laser parameters and experimental data for each laser shot.In this paper we present an overview of our implementation of the control system,as well as our advances in terms of experimental operation,online supervision and data processing.We also give an outlook on advanced experimental supervision and online data evaluation–where the data can be processed in a pipeline–which is being developed on the basis of this infrastructure.展开更多
基金Federal Republic of Germany and the Free State of Bavaria for funding the CALA infrastructure(15171 E 0002)and its operation.the Independent Junior Research Group“Characterization and control of high-intensity laser pulses for particle acceleration”,DFG Project No.453619281.+1 种基金N.W.was supported via the IMPULSE project by the European Union Framework Program for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 under grant agreement No.871161.the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung(BMBF)within project 01IS17048.J.G.acknowledges support from the German Academic scholarship foundation.
文摘The Centre for Advanced Laser Applications in Garching,Germany,is home to the ATLAS-3000 multi-petawatt laser,dedicated to research on laser particle acceleration and its applications.A control system based on Tango Controls is implemented for both the laser and four experimental areas.The device server approach features high modularity,which,in addition to the hardware control,enables a quick extension of the system and allows for automated data acquisition of the laser parameters and experimental data for each laser shot.In this paper we present an overview of our implementation of the control system,as well as our advances in terms of experimental operation,online supervision and data processing.We also give an outlook on advanced experimental supervision and online data evaluation–where the data can be processed in a pipeline–which is being developed on the basis of this infrastructure.
