Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée ~ LOA, Palaiseau, France

Workshop: Science with Petawatt Class Laser A workshop on the physics at high intensity with petawatt class laser systems will be held on 23rd-24th of January 2012 in Amphitheater Stourdzé, Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, in Paris. It will permit to scientists involved in these new PW-class projects to exchange and to gather their unique technical and scientific expertises, essential for the achievement of all these ambitious research programs. The physics at high intensity is becoming a very active field of research, benefiting from the emergence of PW-class laser projects all over the world, as well as remarquable progresses in numerical modeling and theoretical developments. On the Plateau de Saclay, the EquipeX CILEX will offer a unique experimental ensemble around the APOLLON10P laser for the French community to explore the physics at ultra-high intensity. Link to the web site of the meeting LOA General Assembly meeting The LOA general assembly meeting will take place Thursday, February 9, 2012 at ENSTA-ParisTech Palaiseau campus. This event is an opportunity to revisit the highlights of the year 2011, to review the laboratory projects and their position into the local, national and international levels. Workshop "Fs Laser Damages" December 7th, 2011On December 7th 2011, was held at LOA a workshop on the fundamental aspects of the damages generated by femtosecond laser pulses and on the optical coatings that may increase damage thresholds. The performance of femtosecond laser sources are indeed increasing both in high energy and in terms of short duration. The components used in these sources require both a wide spectral band, a small group velocity dispersion, high flux resistance and sometimes large transverse dimensions. The industrial applications and the constraints linked to such developments were also discussed. workshop program 2 new research engineers hired at LOATwo new research engineers, Fabien Tissandier and Jean-Philippe Goddet, have been hired at LOA. Fabien Tissandier will join the FLEX group whose objective is the production of ultrafast X-ray sources and their applications. he will provide experimental support in the field of x-ray instrumentation and assists researchers during their experiments. Jean-Philippe Goddet will join the laser team. He will mainly be responsible for operating the "Salle Jaune" laser system and develop laser diagnostics. Their positions will start December 2011.

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Le Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée (LOA) is an UMR (Unité Mixte de Recherches) ENSTA-Paris Tech - CNRS - École Polytechnique. Its research activity covers a broad spectrum of science in the field of ultrafast lasers and their applications: development of intense laser sources, laser-matter interaction and plasma physics, production of compact sources of energetic radiations and particles, multidisciplinary applications of these sources. Read more

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The selection of the second round of national "Equipement of Excellence (EQUIPEX)" has just been released. Two projects in which the LOA is a partner, ATTOLAB and MORPHOSCOPE2, were selected. EQUIPEX are part of the operation "Investments for the Future" set up by the French Ministry of Research. They aim to provide France with scientific equipment of intermediate size (ie, between 1 and 20 million euros), which will benefit all areas of... read more | Read more news

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