Once again this year, the LOA welcomed the public for laboratory tours as part of the “Fête de la Science” […]

A team of researchers from the Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée (LOA, ENSTA, CNRS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris) and CEA […]

Every 2 to 3 years, all LOA staff gather to exchange ideas and discuss our scientific results as well as […]

Without doubts – High-Order Harmonics are non-classical! The QUANTUM group at LOA contributes to pioneering a new research field by […]

Experimentalists around Juliette Dubois and Guillaume Lambert at LOA, together with theorists of LCPMR in Paris, have developed a new, […]

We congratulate Amélie Kies, a doctoral student in LOA’s Quantum group, on winning the 1st prize of the Jury in […]

The highest possible spatio-temporal quality of a focused ultrashort laser pulses is a key factor in experiments relying on highest […]

Laser-plasma acceleration is an alternative method of accelerating electrons to relativistic speeds. A powerful laser pulse is focused in a […]

High-harmonic generation (HHG) is a process in which a strong laser field converts light to higher frequencies, creating ultrashort attosecond […]

We have created a new group at LOA, called Ultrafast optics for QUANTUM materials (QUANTUM), which will explore ultrafast dynamics […]