Projects

Projects that can be realized at the Laboratory of Applied Optics (LOA) under the Access via LASERLAB-EUROPE or via tender joint national LOA-SLIC-CELIA call include the physics of the interaction between ultrafast intense lasers with the matter, the production of ultrafast radiation sources (UV, X, gamma) and intense beams of particles (proton and electron) as well as their applications in different scientific fields (bio-chemistry, solid state physics, atomic and molecular physics, medical, nuclear physics).

The LOA has a unique pool of femtosecond laser systems from low power oscillator delivering 10 fs pulses at 10 MHz to amplified modules with intensities of 10²⁰ W/cm² at 10 Hz with a pulse duration of 30 fs. These systems are equipped with a set of high technology instruments including 2D optical multichannel analyzer, real time high dynamic auto-correlators allowing the full characterization of the temporal profile of laser beams, spectrometer, analyzers to monitor the beam profile, etc... The latest generation of femtosecond laser systems Ti: Sa can be found at LOA.

Although the expertise of the laboratory in the consortium LASERLAB-EUROPE includes the topics listed below, researchers and research teams wishing to make a proposal on other topics are welcome and are encouraged to contact the Director of LOA laboratory or research group leaders.

• Laser matter interaction at very high laser intensity, physics of plasmas produced on solid/gas targets and soft aggregates, relativistic effects in beam propagation of high intensity femtosecond lasers, soliton formation, production of intense magnetic fields ; nuclear physics assisted by laser, laser ablation.

• The atomic and molecular physics in strong fields, multi-ionization in relativistic regime.

• Development of secondary sources: THz pulses, ultrashort X-ray and gamma; synchrotron and free electron laser, X-laser radiation, XUV harmonic generation, laser XUV, laser OFI; beams of energetic electrons and protons, nuclear fusion by explosion of aggregates.

• Application of secondary sources: dynamics of transient structures with ultrafast visible spectroscopy and X-ray absorption and diffraction; femtosecond and attosecond science, physics and nonlinear X-XUV; gamma imaging, cancer therapy-assisted by laser, pulsed radiation dosimetry; guiding of discharge suing intense femtosecond lasers.

• Nonlinear propagation (filamentation, etc..).

• Studies of the ultrafast dynamics of strongly correlated materials.

• Femtosecond laser-assisted surgery.