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[#Laser] LaserNetUS 2024 meeting will take place July 16-18 in Austin. LaserNetUS is a scientific ecosystem established by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to advance and promote intense ultrafast laser science and applications. The LaserNetUS facilities are located at ten universities and other institutions across North America : ✔ Colorado State University - Advanced Beam Laboratory ✔ Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)– Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) ✔ Berkeley Lab - laboratory Laser accelerator (BELLA) center ✔ The University of Texas at Austin – Center for High Energy Density Science ✔ University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Diocles Extreme Light Laboratory - Nebraska ✔ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Jupiter laser facility ✔ University of Rochester – Laboratory for laser energetics : OMEGA EP ✔ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory – Matter in extreme conditions (MEC) ✔ University of Michigan - Michigan Target Research and Fabrication(MiTRF)  ✔ The Ohio State University – Scarlet laser facility ✔ University of Central Florida – Institute for the frontier of attosecond science and technology ✔ University of California, Berkeley – Phoenix laser laboratory ✔ University of Maryland – Laboratory for Intense Laser-matter Interaction physics The network currently has more than 1200 members, including Thales, worldwide leader in high power laser, and major actor in the US. Thales laser systems already equip more than half of them with unique laser systems such as the first ever achieved 1 petawatt 1 Hz laser built for the BELLA center of Berkeley Lab operating since 2012 . Thales will also deliver US company TAU Systems cutting-edge laser system delivering 40 TW at 100 Hz. Performances and reliability of #Thales laser solutions make possible tremendous scientific breakthroughs in fundamental and applied research in a wide range of fields, such as #particleacceleration, #cancertreatment, #nuclearfusion. At #LaserNetUS meeting meet with Ryan West and Nathan Lader to know more about #Thales latest advancements in high power lasers. #science #innovation #future #powerlaser #ultrafastlaser https://lasernetus.org/

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] 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