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 […]