Extreme light, optics at the limits
(Ultrahigh intensity, relativistic optics, ultrashort pulses, X-UV optics and sources)
The ISL has a world-class expertise in the field of ultra-fast light sources of very high intensity or attoseconds in the X-UV field. Continuous instrumental developments improve our state-of-the-art facilities. Ultrashort pulses are used to probe the dynamics of ultrafast phenomena in a wide range of disciplines and states of matter: dilute matter, condensed matter, magnetism, attochemistry ... Extremely intense sources enable studies on relativistic plasmas produced by laser, relativistic optics and applications in radiation generation and particle acceleration techniques by laser.
- Atmospheres, Spatial Observations Laboratory (LATMOS)
- Charles Fabry laboratory (LCF)
- Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS)
- Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay (ICMMO)
- Institut de Chimie Physique (ICP)
- Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO)
- Laboratoire de Physique des Gaz et des Plasmas (LPGP)
- Laboratory Interactions, Dynamics and Lasers (LIDYL)
- Laboratory of Solid-State Physics (LPS)
- Laboratory of the Physics of the two infinities Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab)
- Nanosciences and Innovation for Materials, Biomedicine and Energy (NIMBE)
- Optics and Associated Techniques Department (DOTA)
- Synchrotron SOLEIL (SOLEIL)
- Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Observatory (OVSQ)