A Laser-Plasma Accelerator (LPA) uses accelerating fields (wakefield) that are typically 3 orders of magnitude higher than in radio-frequency accelerators. […]

X and soft X-ray coherent sources are widely used tools to probe ultrafast dynamics of the matter on the nanometer […]

Isabel Gonzalez Vallejo was awarded the 2020 PhD thesis prize from Association Française de Cristallographie de Physique de la Matière […]

André Antonetti nous a quitté ce lundi 13 avril 2020, emporté par le coronavirus, à l’âge de 88 ans. Le […]

The development of ultra-intense and ultra-short light sources is currently a subject of intense research driven by the discovery of […]

High-intensity sources of femtosecond x-ray pulses are a must-have tool for studying ultrafast processes. Unfortunately, only a handful of kilometer-long […]

Undulator based synchrotron light sources and free electron Lasers (feLs) are valuable modern probes of matter with high temporal and spatial […]

The EPS Hannes Alfvén Prize 2019 for outstanding contributions to plasma physics is jointly awarded to: Professor Victor Malka, of […]

When a body moves in the atmosphere with a supersonic velocity, a shock wave is generated. This leads to a […]

Gérard Mourou is the co-inventor, joint work with Donna Strickland, of the Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) technique (thirty years ago). […]