A petawatt laser coupled with four nanoseconds lasers beams, located in Aquitaine (France)

Laser "PETAL" stands for "PETawatt Aquitaine Laser".

The PETAL laser facility is a high energy multi-petawatt laser, wich is able to generate pulses of up to 3.5 kJ energy with a duration of 0.5 to 5 ps. This petawatt laser will be coupled with the high power laser LIL. PETAL will act as a demonstrator of physics and laser technology for the subsequent facility named HiPER.

PETAL is located in the site of the CEA/CESTA in Le Barp, close to Bordeaux.

The “Région Aquitaine” is the contracting owner of the PETAL facility. The CEA is the project manager and the prime contractor of the PETAL project. The Technical and scientific assistance is provided by the ILP (Institut Lasers et Plasmas).

PETAL is part of the Pole de compétitivité Route des lasers .

news

French astrophysics workshop

A workshop took place at le Barp, on 21 January 2009, on astrophysics related to the PETAL project. The various french scientific projects were (...)

Date of publication : 6 May 2009

A Franco-Russian Memorandum of Understanding for PETAL

From 9 to 11 March 2009, the ILP at Le Barp hosted a delegation of Russian scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the ISTC (...)

Date of publication : 6 May 2009

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Events

6 September 2009 - 11 September 2009 | San Francisco, USA IFSA Conference Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications Sixth International Conference - http://ifsa09.org/

31 August 2009 - 4 September 2009 | Palais des Congrès, Arcachon, France UFO - HFSW Ultra fast Optics - High Field Short Wavelength www.ufo-hfsw.org

29 June 2009 - 3 July 2009 | Sofia, Bulgaria 36th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics http://eps2009.uni-sofia.bg/

24 May 2009 - 29 May 2009 | Frascati, Italia Ultra-Intense Laser Interaction Science conference (ULIS2009) http://ilil.ipcf.cnr.it/ulis2009/

Contacts - Mentions légales

Conseil régional d'Aquitaine - 14, rue François de Sourdis - 33077 Bordeaux - France - Tél.: +33 0(5) 57 57 80 00 - Télécopie : +33 0(5) 56 24 72 80