Prix Jean-Louis Laclare : Cédric Thaury
We warmly congratulate our colleague Cédric Thaury, head of the UPX group, to whom the Société Française de Physique has…
3D imaging with micrometer resolution of nanoparticles in cancer metastases
Radiotherapy treatment of cancer can be enhanced using injected nano-particles that accumulate inside the cancerous cells. This method currently moves…
First second harmonic generation of a XUV laser
Two photons with the same frequency can interact in a material to combine to a new photon of twice the…
Radiobiology with laser-accelerated electron bunches
The FLASH effect in radiotherapy is the fact that radiotoxicity for healthy tissues is reduced by delivering a therapeutic radiation…
Davide Boschetto and quantum technologies at LOA
The French quantum plan announced at the beginning of the year is also echoed at LOA, where the APPLI and…
Self-focusing and dense gamma rays in electron beam-multifoil collisions
When a highly compressed and focused electron beam collides with a solid-density plasma, electromagnetic fields associated to the near field…
The Laser lightning Rod project
Lightning is highly destructive due to its high-power density and unpredictable character. Directing lightning away would allow to protect sensitive…
Strongly boosted energy and flux of LOA’s betatron x-ray source
Betatron x-ray sources from laser-plasma accelerators reproduce the principle of a synchrotron at the millimeter scale. X-rays are produced by…
Less divergent vacuum-laser-accelerated electron beams with a radially polarized laser
Intense lasers carry the highest electric fields that can be obtained in the laboratory (higher than 10 TV/m). In principle,…