Workshop Report: Brightest Light Initiative (March 27-29 2019, OSA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.)

This Brightest Light Initiative (BLI) Workshop Report captures the important research ideas and recommendations for enabling that work developed by over 100 leading scientists at a community-initiated workshop held March 27-29, 2019 in Washington, DC. Workshop attendees developed an understanding of key opportunities, as well as gaps in current technologies and capabilities, for science enabled by the highest-intensity lasers.
Comment: 118 pages, 28 figures, released January 31, 2020, Chair: Roger Falcone (UC Berkeley) Scientific Research Needs (SRNs) Co-chairs: Felicie Albert (LLNL), Farhat Beg (UC San Diego), Siegfried Glenzer (SLAC) Technical Research Needs (TRNs) Co-chairs: Todd Ditmire (UT Austin), Tom Spinka (LLNL), Jonathan Zuegel (Univ. Rochester)