Laser

Laser-plasma technology: the future of particle acceleration

14 Jan 2021

Research into particle acceleration might just be on the threshold of a revolution. In the ongoing quest to understand the universe, humankind needs new tools to accelerate particles to even higher speeds so we can delve further into the infinitesimally small building blocks of matter and uncover new mysteries. The problem is that conventional particle accelerators rely on increasingly vast structures to achieve higher energy levels. Particle acceleration based on laser-plasma interaction is therefore a particularly compelling alternative.

Rover’s SuperCam instrument including Thales laser ready for liftoff to Mars!

23 Jul 2020

On July 30, 2020 at 7:50 am local time, an Atlas V rocket will lift off with NASA’s Perseverance rover from Cape Canaveral in Florida, en route to the Red Planet. This is a decisive moment in NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, designed to study the surface of Mars, look for traces of past life, take soil samples at selected sites and place them in defined locations to be brought back to Earth by the upcoming Mars Sample Return mission, to be carried out jointly with the European Space Agency (ESA).

ELI-NP is now ready to welcome world scientists!

27 Nov 2019

The most powerful laser system in the world developed and installed by Thales in Romania with the capacity to deliver pulses with the record power level of 10 petawatts, was formally accepted on October 11, 2019 by our Customer, the National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering Horia Hulubei (IFIN-HH).

World record for Thales Laser Tech !

20 Mar 2019

The Extreme Light Infrastructure for Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) project in Romania recently reached on March 20, 2019 a significant milestone: the ultra-high intensity laser system developed by Thales has successfully generated its first pulses at a peak power level of 10 petawatts (PW) equivalent to 1016 watts : 10.9PW, 327] at 1 shot/min compressed in a pulse just 22.3 femtoseconds long to be precise.

2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for Gerard Mourou’s research work

15 Dec 2018

World’s most powerful laser developed by Thales and ELI-NP achieves record power level of 10 PW

20 Mar 2019

The Extreme Light Infrastructure for Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) project in Romania has recently reached a significant milestone: the ultra-high intensity laser system developed by Thales has successfully generated its first pulses at a peak power level of 10 petawatts (1015 W).

Seeing the light

30 Aug 2018

When scientists first glimpsed the possibility of opening up new knowledge about the universe through ultra-powerful lasers, they faced a challenge: no laser at the time was remotely powerful enough. But ten years later, Thales has brought them to the verge of realising their vision.

Generating x-rays imaging

29 May 2018

Our customer the Centre for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA) located in Garching has big ambitions. One among them is the development of novel biomedical imaging technologies based on high-energy X-rays.

The first arm of the ELI NP laser system operating for the first time at a power level of 3 PetaWatt

04 Jun 2018

The programme has now reached a major milestone, with the first arm of the laser system operating for the first time at a power level of 3 PetaWatt.

Thales to provide Laser Beam Transportation System of the world’s most powerful laser

04 Jun 2018

This laser will support research in nuclear physics and help advance human understanding of the physics of matter.