Nobel prize 2023 in physics for attosecond pulse generation
The Laboratoire d’Optique Appliqué enthusiastically congratulates our colleagues Pierre Agostini, Anne L’Huillier and Ferenc Krausz to the Nobel Prize in […]
Shortening the path: Towards multi-stage TeV plasma accelerators
Current radio-frequency technology for electron particle accelerators limits the energy gain to about 100 mega-electronvolt per meter acceleration length, before […]
The LAPLACE high-rep.-rate laser has arrived at LOA
Announced at the end of 2020, the LAPLACE laser-plasma acceleration center is beginning to take shape at LOA. Following the […]
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 […]