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Latest updates from EISCAT and ELI

Location:Second floorTrack:Technical Seminars

EISCAT
EISCAT is currently building the most advanced high-power three-dimensional imaging radar for atmospheric, ionospheric and near-Earth space investigations. The fully steerable, tri-static, phased-array incoherent scatter radar is located in Skibotn (Norway), Karesuvanto (Finland), and Kaiseniemi (Sweden).

The transmit-receive array at Skibotn consists of about 10,000 aerials and ten 91-aerial outrigger receivers in the immediate vicinity. The receive-only arrays of Kaiseniemi and Karesuvanto consist of about 5,000 aerials each.

Construction of the facility began after the project kick-off in September 2017. First test measurements with a mono-static core system will be carried out early 2024. During 2024, EISCAT_3D will gradually expand to fully tri-static operations.

ELI
The Extreme Light Infrastructure is the world’s largest and most advanced high-power laser infrastructure and a global technology and innovation leader in high-power, high-intensity and short-pulsed laser systems.

The international laser user facility ELI accommodates some of the most intense lasers in the world. ELI’s lasers produce ultra-short pulses of high-energy photons, electrons, protons and neutrons.

ELI is the first ESFRI Landmark constructed in the Central and Eastern European Member States. With an investment exceeding 850 million euros from the European Regional Development Funds, three world-class high-power, high-repetition-rate laser facilities have been established in the Czech Republic (ELI Beamlines), Hungary (ELI-ALPS) and Romania (ELI-NP).