Fig. 1. Sketch of the experimental infrastructure at CALA: the ATLAS-3000 laser provides the experimental chambers LION, LUX, ETTF and HF with multi-petawatt laser pulses via the LBD.

Fig. 2. Sketch of the Tango server infrastructure. Device servers allow communication with physical devices.

Fig. 3. Screenshot showing the GUI of the Tango code generator called Pogo. Pogo allows the definition of properties, commands, attributes and states for a device server.

Fig. 4. Screenshot of the Jive GUI showing a list of camera device servers and their device properties.

Fig. 5. Display of the image attribute of a Shack-Hartmann camera in Jive.

Fig. 6. Display of the Astor user interface.

Fig. 7. CALA overview dashboard for the supervision of laser parameters and the LION experimental chamber.

Fig. 8. Flow of commands for the CALA trigger system.

Fig. 9. Correlation of laser pulse energy with air temperature measured at the amplification crystal.

Fig. 10. Machine learning application in few-cycle probing in a hybrid^[21] laser–plasma accelerator. The objects to be detected in the shadowgram are the plasma wave, the shock and the diffraction patterns from dust particles.