🚀Plasma Science Summer School!🌊
Join us on Porquerolles Island, France (June 21-27) to study:
🔹 Laser-plasma accelerators
🔹 Photon sources
🔹 Inertial fusion
🔹 Lab-Astrophysics
🎓 For PhDs & Early Career Researchers.
💰 All local costs covered!
⏳ Apply by March 27: plasmascience.fr/plasmascienc...
Kudos to our our colleague Adrien Leblanc who is a partner in the recently awarded ERC Synergy grant NP-QED !
Together with scientists from @cea.fr ,DESY and @urochester.bsky.social, he will develop experiments that turn vacuum itself into a nonlinear medium.
loa.ensta-paris.fr/2025/11/12/a...
Screenshot of the lab-website's recruitment section with a list of available M2 subjects
Looking for an M2 internship?
Most of our offers are on our website here:
loa.ensta-paris.fr/join-us/
Lots of experiments on some of the planet's coolest lasers, and lots of numerical simulations!
La fête de la science commence à l'Ecole @polytechniqueparis.bsky.social et continue demain.
Venez demain le 04/10 visiter au LOA un laboratoire où nous accelerons des électrons par laser à >99,99% de la vitesse de la lumière, et où nous développons des applications médicales. A demain !
#fds2025
Boosting the energy and beam quality of laser-wakefield accelerated electrons with a plasma waveguide, first demonstrated at LOA in 2022 (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) has also worked at the APOLLON laser. We generated quasi-monoenergetic beams beyond 2 GeV !
loa.ensta-paris.fr/2025/09/30/q...
Every couple of years we move the whole lab for a few days away from the daily grind in Palaiseau to some beautiful location.
For the LOA Days 2025, we went to the magnificent island of Porquerolles!
loa.ensta-paris.fr/2025/09/30/t...
High-order harmonics are non-classcial!
This has recently been further substantiated by @kittenstate.bsky.social and his colleagues of the QUANTUM group at LOA.
loa.ensta-paris.fr/2025/09/09/q...
Their observation of a displaced squeezed state is now published in @physrevresearch.bsky.social.
Antoine Cavagna is defending his PhD thesis today at LOA!
Le LOA recrute un.e assistant.e en gestion financière et comptable, en mobilité interne du service publique (NOEMI).
La date limite et déjà le 30 Mai, donc merci de faire suivre cette annonce à des personnes qui pourraient être intéressés!
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/MOBIN...
@univparissaclay.bsky.social @ip-paris.bsky.social
Join us at the
FOrum de la Communauté Ultrarapide du plateau de Saclay
on June 12 at Polytechnique @ecolepolytechnique.bsky.social!
Register at focus.sciencesconf.org before June 1st!
See you at FOCUS#4 for this great program:
And she's made it: bravo docteure Juliette Dubois 👏🏻🥂!
Juliette Dubois is defending her PhD thesis today!
There's a new animal in the zoo of ultrafast pulse characterization methods:
TIBETAN-FOX is a specialist of femtosecond XUV pulses, and has been demonstrated first at LOA!
loa.ensta-paris.fr/2025/04/29/t...
a banner with some laser mirrors and the logo of the FOCUS meeting.
Are you working on scientific subjects dealing with ultrafast (or almost so) dynamics and are located on the Paris-Saclay plateau (@ip-paris.bsky.social+@univparissaclay.bsky.social)?
Then join us at FOCUS on June 12th 2025 at @ecolepolytechnique.bsky.social !
focus.sciencesconf.org?lang=en
Amélie Kies du LOA a remporté le 1er Prix du jury au finale de "Ma Thèse en 180 secondes" du IP-Paris @ip-paris.bsky.social !
Tout le LOA est fier de notre collègue Amélie, bravo !
🥳✌️💖
@mt180fr.bsky.social #MT180
www.ip-paris.fr/actualites/r...
Here we go! #MT180s
Go Amélie !
Notre doctorante Amélie Kies, qui participe au concours #MT180s au @ipparis.bsky.social, raconte dans cette interview son parcours qui l'a amené à faire une thèse en physique quantique chez nous.
www.ensta-paris.fr/fr/amelie-ki...
Bienvenu au GDR Ultrafast Phenomena @gdr-up.bsky.social sur Bluesky !
Our recent paper in @opticapubsgroup.bsky.social Optics Letters presents the first relativistic plasma-mirror high harmonic generation on a liquid-sheet target.
This is a real game changer for plasma mirrors !
Persistent kHz-rep.-rate with unprecedented stability.
doi.org/10.1364/OL.5...
Bravo encore à notre collègue Aline Vernier, décorée cette année par la médaille de cristal du CNRS !
Voici sa vidéo portrait tournée pour l'occasion:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlmO...
We were happy to receive Prof. Donna Strickland's visit today and show her around a few of our labs.
Absolutely everything at LOA runs thanks to her (and our former colleague Gerard Mourou's) Nobel-prize-decorated Chirped-pulse-amplification!
Selected candidates will then be invited to present their work to a national jury.
The CNRS is prioritizing applicants with 1 to 5 years of post-doctoral experience.
Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to reach out to Jérôme Faure or Cédric Thaury (find their email on the LOA webpage).
Applications must be submitted by January 10, 2025, at 1 p.m. through the official portal:
concourschercheurs2025.dsi.cnrs.fr/accueil.php?...
Provide a summary of your previous work and propose a research program, each about 10 pages long and written for physicists who are not experts in the field.
Join the CNRS - one of the finest research institutions of the planet, and one of the possibilities to work at LOA.
In this year's CNRS "concours" for permanent researcher positions, there's one specifically for laser-plasma particle acceleration at LOA.
The application deadline is 8 Jan.; it's strongly advised to contact the lab before applying.
Join us!
(Cf. France's Official Journal,
under N°04/02:)
IMPALA, the method retrieving multi-spectral wavefronts from measured speckle patterns, co-developed and first demonstrated at LOA, is highlighted in the December issue of @opnmagazine.bsky.social:
www.optica-opn.org/home/article...
This wonderful Macaron has been home-baked and laser engraved with an LOA logo by one of our brilliant PhD candidates.
This is the kind of rich skill set you develop during a thesis at LOA!
It tastes really good, too.
You can see the defense here: youtu.be/-KDafPY15-s?...