At a glance

 

LOA gathers around 90 people including 43 permanent staff. The permanent staff mainly comes from three french agencies (ENSTA-Paris Tech, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique-Paris Tech). LOA welcomes twenty PhD students per year, some twenty scientists doing research, and a team of ITA to ensure administrative work and to support research activities.

 

 

The research activity at LOA is done in 7 research groups. The topics are the development of intense femtosecond lasers, plasma physics and laser-matter interaction, the production of radiation sources and particle by laser, and applications of femtosecond sources of radiation and particles. Researchers have 9 rooms available for on site experiments. They also collaborate strongly with national and international partners.

  • FCB : Femto-bio-chemistery
  • FLEX : Ultrafast X-ray sources
  • ILM : Laser-matter interaction
  • LHP : High power laser
  • OPS : Optics, Photonics and surgery
  • PCO : Physics of optical cycle
  • SPL : Laser-based particle sources

These research groups are supported by the SELF group (Experimental System and femtosecond lasers) and the DSGgroup (administration). SELF provides design and implementation of experiments, as well as operation and maintenance of experimental laser systems. DSG manages the laboratory: administration, management of fundings and national/european contracts.

The distribution of permanent staff per agency is the following:

 

 

The LOA staff is as follows (ITA: Technician and Engineers, Chercheur: researchers, CDD: non-permanent staff):

 

Thanks to the high quality of the research work, the laboratory gets contracts (national and international) in addition to the funds provided by the 3 national agencies. The annual budget of the laboratory (not including salaries of staff and infrastructure costs) is around € 3 million (2010), of which 65% is based on contracts. The total budget of LOA is approching 8M€ for year 2011 (see figure below). It includes salaries and infrastructures costs. 

 

 

 

LOA in brief 2010

  • 57  articles in revues with referring process
  • 13 articles in revues without referring process
  • 39  invited conférences
  • 47 oral conférences or posters
  • 4 PhD thesis obtained
  • 18  PhD student
  • 3 patents
  • 4 awards

Contracts

  • 5 europeans
  • 46 funded by french organisations

Contracts per year : 2400 keuros TTC.

 

 

 

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