Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée ~ LOA, Palaiseau, France

National OSEO award for SourceLab The spinoff project Sourcelab, initiated by three young researchers who completed their Ph.D thesis at LOA, François Sylla, Antonin Borot and Aurélien Ricci, has been awarded the 15th National Competition OSEO prize to support the creation of innovative technology companies in the "Creation-Development" field. LOA and ENSTA will host the compagny that will be created from September 2013. The purpose of this prize is to detect and highlight innovative technology companies and to support the very best of them with financial assistance and appropriate fundings. Established in 1999, the prize has become over time a major event set up by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research to help the creators of innovative technology projects. The award of this National Competition will be held July 2, 2013 in the presence the Minister Geneviève Fioraso. 3 awards for a LOA Ph.D Student- June 4, 2013 - Sebastien Corde has just been awarded 3 prizes for his research activities conducted at the Laboraroire d'Optique Appliquée (LOA): the 2013 Ecole Polytechnique Ph.D thesis prize, the René Pellat award from the Société Française de Physique (SFP) and the American Physical Society (APS) award. Under the leadership of Kim Ta Phuoc in the FLEX research group from the Laboratory of Applied Optics (LOA), Sébastien Corde has developed sources of ultrashort X-rays produced from the interaction of an intense femtosecond laser with the matter. His thesis was defended on 12 March 2012. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford SLAC laboratory in the United States.Kickoff EU action on X-ray metrologyThe Scientific kick-off meeting of the COST Action MP1203 on Advanced Spatial and Temporal X-ray Metrology will be held in Paris on April 2013, 4th and 5th. It aims to bring together PhD students, post- docs, technicians, engineers and researchers, from early stage to senior, from all academic and industrial fields involved with X-rays and their applications. New synergies between groups from (currently) 18 European and 3 non-EU countries will promote strong and rapid progress in the metrology of X-ray sources and optics. Similar challenges in neutron optics, which have analogies with X-ray optics, will also be represented. It will gather persons interested by the topics developed in Action MP1203 for launching collaborations, short-term scientific missions, training schools, and future meetings. see the announcementHDR Davide Boschetto- January 31st, 2013 - Davide Boschetto, researcher at ENSTA-LOA has passed with success his HDR award at ENSTA, Palaiseau Center. He has presented his research conducted over the past ten years on the subject of optical phonons in the study of the ultrafast dynamics of the matter and their role in phase transitions.

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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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After 1 year and a half break and an intense work of the technical support and researchers teams to carry out a huge upgrade program, the LOA laser Facility "Salle Jaune" and the related experimental sites have just done their first shots on target. First experiments of laser-matter interaction have been performed successfully on the acceleration of energetic electrons (image: 3 electron spectra around 400 MeV from 3 consecutive laser shots)... read more | Read more news

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