The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) will launch its 8th User Call on 17 March 2026, with a proposal deadline of 22 April 2026. Researchers from around the world are invited to apply for access to the cutting-edge...

Last autumn, our research institute announced the fourth edition of its “Art in Science” competition. The aim of the initiative was to encourage contestants to artistically reinterpret images taken during our research...

ELI offers users ultrafast laser sources at its ALPS facility. A paper presenting our HR Alignment system, which has been in operation for six months, has been published in High Power Laser Science and Engineering. We...

The performance of laser ion accelerators can be significantly improved by modifying the temporal shape of the laser pulse – the relevant results were published in Communications Physics, a journal within Nature...

A joint Australian-Hungarian-Lithuanian user experiment at ELI ALPS entitled “Towards Compact Laser Driven Neutron Sources for Imaging and Theranostics Radiopharmaceutical Production” has been completed. We asked...

The pump–probe method is a key tool in many laser experiments, where a pump pulse is used to generate the process to be analyzed, which is then investigated with a probe pulse arriving later. The method developed in...

President Tamás Sulyok’s visit to the Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Attosecond Light Pulse Facility in Szeged, the first by a Hungarian head of state, highlighted Hungary’s leadership in advanced research and its...

ELI’s 7th User Call drew record participation from the global scientific research community, with 170 experiment proposals submitted by teams from 30 countries. In total, 680 scientists took part as Principal and...

The energy supply of the Szeged laser centre is now supported by a 5 MW capacity small power plant built with the combination of floating, carport-mounted and sun tracking solar panels. The facility was inaugurated on...