Thales Science

The 1st Thales Mechanical Symposium, held on June 25 and 26, 2024, at Thales Research & Technology in Palaiseau, brought together the Thales mechanical community for a dynamic exchange of ideas on innovation, competitiveness, and sustainability. The event featured a range of communications, workshops, and demonstrations from Thales entities, innovative suppliers, and start-ups, providing rich interactions, valuable information, and networking opportunities. Bringing together professionals from the technical, engineering, industry, and procurement sectors, this symposium marked a significant step in fostering collaboration and driving innovation within the Thales mechanical community.   #ThalesMechanicalSymposium #Innovation #Sustainability #Networking #ThalesGroup Nicolas Roels Cédric Demeure PROTEC CODECHAMP - SEMIP DEMGY T3DMC COLD PAD Touch Sensity ADAGOS  

[#Laser] On May 6, Thales and Peking University signed the commissioning of #Thales 2 PW/1Hz laser system installed in the Beijing Laser Acceleration Innovation Center in Huairou. This system, China's highest peak-power 1 Hz laser at 2 PW will significantly increase the University’s research capacities in the field of particle acceleration and proton therapy for cancer treatment. Thanks to excellent collaboration between Thales laser experts in France, engineers of Thales China and PKU teams, Thales ensured the on-time shipment of this complex large-scale device, its installation and commissioning. The system is now ready for the full operation of research projects. Olivier Chalus Vincent Leroux Alain Pellegrina Gilles Rey Durand Eric Philippe Fichot Alexandre Monnet Brice FLEURI 隋一波 🇫🇷 🇨🇳 🇲🇳 Franck Leibreich Suzanne Tong-Li #particleacceleration #cancertreatment #protontherapy #innovation #science

[#Laser] Recently teams of #LULI - laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses and #Thales have carried out successfully the final tests of the new front end of the multipetawatt system part of #APOLLON, a large research infrastructure project led by CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique and l'École Polytechnique and located in France on Plateau de #Saclay. Thales has provided this front end integrating its best technologies to date, in particular in terms of temporal contrast and spectral width of the laser pulses , ensuring in the same time a high level of performance combined to excellent stability and reliability verified on a daily basis. These features will enable the most demanding requirements for applications such as high energy protons acceleration and will confirm the prominent role of Apollon in the worldwide landscape of ultra high intensity laser infrastructures able therefore to attract the best French and international researchers to do their experiments. Thales is proud to increase its contribution to this flagship project, after having delivered some years ago several high energy ATLAS pump lasers which are used to pump the main amplifier and contribute to deliver currently a peak power of 4 petawatts. This is another landmark of the collaboration between CNRS and Thales over decades on intense lasers which has been reinforced through the creation in 2021 of HERACLES3 joint research laboratory between #CNRS, l'#EcolePolytechnique, l'ENSTA Paris and Thales. #science #innovation #future #particleacceleration #laserplasma #intenselaser

[#Laser] Beyond peak power, the energy / frequency ratio is an essential criterion for PW/ TW class femtosecond lasers. With low repetition rate TW/PW class high power lasers, particle flux is not enough to accelerate and generate intense flows of particles and radiation that are required for a various field of future societal applications. To overcome this, #Thales laser team have developed a state-of-the art 100 Hz Joule class TiSa laser. Don’t miss on May 10 at 3 p.m. (SF3L2) Olivier Chalus talk at CLEO 2024 -https://lnkd.in/gTa9NUy - ( May 5 – 10 at Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA) #innovation #science #photonics #powerlaser

[#laser] In Italy, #Thales will provide a 500 TW high power laser system to INFN-LNS, the Laboratori Nazionale del Sud of prestigious Istituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare for I-LUCE - INFN Laser indUCed radiation genEration -facility. This state-of-the-art laser system with stable quality of laser beam will allow to push forward research in the medical or nuclear fields for a wide range of applications such as new flash radiotherapy and proton- boron fusion reaction. #innovation #science #technology #flashradiotherapy #fusionenergy  https://lnkd.in/dzeBvwkn

[#Laser] Let’s meet in Japan ! At OPIE’24 (OPTICS & PHOTONICS International Exhibition 2024, Wed. 24 – Fri. 26 April 2024 in Yokohama at PACIFICO Yokohama, meet Shinobu Kobayashi and Guillaume THIBAULT of the #Thales laser 10 PW team. If you plan to attend OPIE’24 next week, don’t miss them ! OPIE is one of the largest exhibitions in Japan dedicated to opto-related technologies. It is the only large-scale exhibition in Japan linked to an international academic conference, attracting top-level researchers and engineers from universities, research institutes, and companies in the laser and optics-related fields from Japan and abroad. #science #photonics #opie2024 #particleacceleration #laserplasma #particlegeneration https://lnkd.in/d_v-9xG

[#laser] Le CEA fait confiance à #Thales qui, dans le cadre du projet PETAL UPgrade cofinancé par la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine et l’Etat Français, fournira en 2027 le laser pilote, sous-ensemble stratégique du laser PETAL, lui-même partie intégrante de l'installation Laser MegaJoule située près de Bordeaux. Cette sélection repose sur la maîtrise de Thales de systèmes laser complexes et sur sa capacité à les délivrer dans les temps impartis et dans des environnements contraints. #innovation #science  #fusionnucleaire #CEA #CESTA Thales https://www-lmj.cea.fr/   [#Laser] As part of the PETAL UPgrade project co-funded by the New Aquitaine Region and the French government, the CEA has placed its trust in #Thales, which in 2027 will supply the pilot laser, a strategic sub-assembly of the PETAL laser, itself an integral part of the Laser MegaJoule facility located near Bordeaux. This selection is based on Thales' expertise in complex laser systems and its ability to deliver them on time and in constrained environments. #fusionenergy #lasertechnology #lasermegajoule #lasersystem

[#Laser] Gérard Mourou, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, first came up with the idea in 2005 of building a laser system with an output power of 10 to 100 petawatts. French magazine Le Point looks back at the genesis of Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics Center (ELI-NP) in Romania. Today the dream has become reality : ELI-NP is the world's most powerful laser facility, a unique laser facility available to the international academic world for the exploration of the infinitely small and an incredibly wide range of societal applications : from cancer treatment to energy production by inertial fusion. #powerlaser #intenselaser #cancertreatment #medical #nuclearfusion #inertialfusion ELI - Extreme Light Infrastructure Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering - IFIN-HH

[#Laser] Thales and Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics Center (ELI-NP) were happy last week to celebrate together in presence of Gérard Mourou, 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, initiator of ELI - Extreme Light Infrastructure's project and inventor of the Chirped Pulse Amplification principle, 10 years of successful partnership. Excellent collaboration between Thales and ELI-NP teams have made possible great achievements that led in April 2023 to the first 10 PW laser pulses on solid target. ELI-NP, the #NuclearPhysics pillar of the Extreme Light Infrastructure ELI , is the most advanced research facility in the world that brings together, for the first time, High Power Lasers and Nuclear Physics. Implemented by the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering - IFIN-HH , ELI-NP is the largest investment ever made in scientific research in #Romania. Thanks to #Thales high power laser system, ELI-NP can pursue advanced studies in basic science - characterization of laser-matter interaction, particle acceleration, nuclear reactions in plasma, photonuclear reactions, nuclear astrophysics and nucleosynthesis - but also studies in applied research developing technologies for medical or industrial applications. #science #innovation #particleacceleration #nuclearfusion #NobelPrize Domenico Doria, christophe derycke, Ioan Dancus, Gérard Mourou, Nicolae Marius Mărginean, Victor Malka, Yann GERARD, Bernhard Quendt, Franck Leibreich https://lnkd.in/gAqUny7u https://lnkd.in/d7TdpAyE