Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée

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 […]

Thesis 2023

Publications 2023

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 […]

ERC starting grant for Adrien Leblanc

We are happy for our colleague Adrien Leblanc of the UPX group, who just got awarded an ERC Starting grant!  […]

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