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…

Laser-wakefield acceleration lets us build very compact particle accelerators that have applications in particle physics, solid state physics and medicine….

micrometers In collaboration with physicists from LPEM (CNRS/ESPCI/Sorbonne University), C2N (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay), Synchrotron SOLEIL and ONERA, LOA researchers have designed,…

For the new academic year, the LOA’s groups are reinforced by ten new PhD students and postdocs. We welcome them…

We warmly congratulate our colleague Cédric Thaury, head of the UPX group, to whom the Société Française de Physique has…

Radiotherapy treatment of cancer can be enhanced using injected nano-particles that accumulate inside the cancerous cells. This method currently moves…

Two photons with the same frequency can interact in a material to combine to a new photon of twice the…