Welcome to the ELSA Team

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We are a group of highly motivated scientists working on the development of new solid-state lasers and their applications.

Our work begins with the study of new diode-pumped solid-state gain media: crystals, fibres and semiconductor structures, in order to cover a wide range of wavelength and time domain (cw to the femtosecond regime), by studying novel architectures including non linear optical functions for beam quality improvment and for reaching the visible-blue wavelength range.

Our activity triggers numerous applications in biophotonics (fluorescence lifetime microscopy, high resolution imaging, eye surgery), metrology (optical frequency standards) and solid-state physics (harmonics generation, micromachining).

The ELSA team is involved in the ILE (Institut de la Lumière Extrême) project and is in charge of the development of the front-end of the 10 PW Appolon laser facility.

"Team work makes dreams work"

More informations can be found in the Research section.