JéRôME FAURE
Status : Permanent
Group : SPL
Phone number : +33 1 69 31 98 53
Contact
Researcher in the SPL group (Particle Sources with Lasers)
Main research interests
- Laser plasma interaction in the relativistic regime
- Laser wakefield acceleration
- Generation of ultrashort particle and radiation sources
- Application to the study of ultrafast phenomena in condensed matter
Selectect Publications:
- “Few femtosecond, few kiloampere electron bunch produced by a laser-plasma accelerator”; O. Lundh, J. Lim, C. Rechatin, L. Ammoura, A. Ben Ismail, X. Davoine, G. Gallot, J.-P. Goddet, E. Lefbvre, V. Malka, and J. Faure, Nat. Phys.7, 219 (2011)
- “Controlled injection and acceleration of electrons in plasma wakefields by colliding laser pulses”; J. Faure, C. Rechatin, A. Norlin, A. Lifschitz, Y. Glinec and V. Malka, Nature 444, 737 (2006); 232 citations
- “A laser-plasma accelerator producing mono-energetic electron beams”; J. Faure, Y. Glinec, A. Pukhov, S. Kiselev, S. Gordienko, E. Lefebvre, J.-P. Rousseau, F. Burgy and V. Malka; Nature 431, 541(2004); 749 citations
- 2010-...: Ecole Polytechnique: Quantum physics and statistical physics class (4th year students)
- 2005-2009: Université Paris XI: Relativistic laser-plasma interaction (master students)
- 2007: lectures on laser-plasma acceleration at CERN
- 2003-2007: Institut d'Optique Graduate School: experimental optics class (4th year students)
Education:
- since 2010: Associate professor at Ecole Polytechnique
- since 2009: member of the FEMTOARPES project at synchrotron SOLEIL
- 2009: Habilitation (senior scientist)
- since 2003: Permanent researcher at LOA, SPL group
- 2001-2003: Postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CA
- 1998-2001: PhD in Physics from Ecole Polytechnique, France
- 1996: Master from Institut d'Optique Graduate School, France