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 […]
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Researchers from LOA’s F-ILM group, in collaboration with the University of Geneva, EPFL and the company TRUMPF, have recently developed […]
In addition to Adrien Leblanc’s ERC starting grant, three other new research projects are launched at LOA: FemtoDose: (ANR collaborative […]
Researchers from LOA’s UPX group have contributed to a major breakthrough in laser technology: a free-electron laser injected in the […]
We are happy for our colleague Adrien Leblanc of the UPX group, who just got awarded an ERC Starting grant! […]
For the new academic year, the LOA’s groups are reinforced by eight new PhD students and postdocs. We welcome them […]
Teaming up with Alessandro Flacco and Igor Andriyash of the APPLI-group, as well as colleagues of the Weizmann Institute of […]
Seeded collisional plasma-based soft X-ray lasers (SXRLs) are table-top sources able to provide energetic pulses with excellent spatial properties. However, […]
The PCO-group has published a collection of experimental results that provide clear evidence for the first observation of relativistic surface […]
We warmly congratulate our colleague Hamed Merdji, who recently joined the FLUX group, to whom the French Academy of Sciences […]
Laser-plasma accelerators produce and operate extremely strong electric fields, which may allow challenging the conventional kilometers-long particle accelerators. Despite this […]