René Pellat prize 2022 for Pablo San Miguel Claveria
We warmly congratulate Pablo San Miguel Claveria to the award of the René Pellat prize 2022 by the plasma division […]
Attosecond physics at LOA
IP-Paris has talked to LOA’s director Stéphane Sebban, PCO-group-leader Rodrigo Lopez-Martens, and PCO-researcher Stefan Haessler about attosecond physics, subject of […]
Nine new researchers at LOA
For the new academic year, LOA’s groups are strengthened by nine new PhD students and postdocs. We welcome them and […]
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 […]