Chair for “High-Repetition-Rate Laser-Plasma Acceleration” for Jérôme Faure
The LOA hosts the international research chair “High-Repetition-Rate Laser-Plasma Acceleration”, inaugurated on 29 March 2023 at the Ecole Polytechnique. Headed […]
The flying focus effect optimizes soft X-ray lasers
Negative plasma dispersion is a limiting effect in numerous laser-plasma interaction experiments performed at high density. In longitudinally pumped seeded […]
A laser lightning rod in the high mountains
Researchers from LOA’s F-ILM group, in collaboration with the University of Geneva, EPFL and the company TRUMPF, have recently developed […]
Three new research projects funded at LOA
In addition to Adrien Leblanc’s ERC starting grant, three other new research projects are launched at LOA: FemtoDose: (ANR collaborative […]
An ultraviolet free-electron laser driven by a laser-plasma accelerated electron beam
Researchers from LOA’s UPX group have contributed to a major breakthrough in laser technology: a free-electron laser injected in the […]
ERC starting grant for Adrien Leblanc
We are happy for our colleague Adrien Leblanc of the UPX group, who just got awarded an ERC Starting grant! […]
Eight new researchers at LOA
For the new academic year, the LOA’s groups are reinforced by eight new PhD students and postdocs. We welcome them […]
Low divergence proton beams from a laser-plasma accelerator at kHz repetition rate
Teaming up with Alessandro Flacco and Igor Andriyash of the APPLI-group, as well as colleagues of the Weizmann Institute of […]
Femtosecond soft X-ray lasing in dense collisionaly-pumped plasma
Seeded collisional plasma-based soft X-ray lasers (SXRLs) are table-top sources able to provide energetic pulses with excellent spatial properties. However, […]
High-harmonics and correlated electron emission from relativistic plasma mirrors at 1 kHz repetition rate
The PCO-group has published a collection of experimental results that provide clear evidence for the first observation of relativistic surface […]