Partners - CELIA

Description: Located in Bordeaux, France, CELIA is a Joint Research Unit of Université de Bordeaux 1,
CNRS and CEA, under CNRS administration. Research at CELIA covers the whole field of interactions
between intense lasers and matter, and their applications, from the physics of hot and dense plasmas to the
physics of laser–molecule or laser-atom interactions. Research at CELIA is balanced between a major
theoretical effort, especially in the field of Inertial Confinement Fusion, and experimental programmes,
either on site of the CELIA infrastructure in Bordeaux, or in partnership with the neighbouring CEA/CESTA
centre in Le Barp. CELIA and CESTA therefore constitute a joint Bordeaux node within the LASERLAB
EUROPE Consortium.

Excellence: CELIA has expertise in several fields, in particular generation of ultra-short pulses of Extreme
UV and X-rays, and in the development of high average power, high repetition rate lasers. CELIA
experimentalists are also instrumental to many experiments Europe-wide on high energy laser systems.

Main tasks: CELIA will be strongly involved in four LASERLAB EUROPE activities : the JRAs HAPPIE
and ALADIN, the Access program, and as coordinator of one networking activity : NA3 (Scientific and
Technological Exchanges). CELIA will also collaborate with CESTA on the Access program of CESTA.

Previous experience: CELIA has been very active in the FP6 LASERLAB EUROPE I3, in particular in the
field of attosecond pulse generation (FOSCIL JRA), and of laser research and development (OTTER JRA).
Independently from the FP6 LASERLAB EUROPE Access program, CELIA has hosted several User groups
for Access experiments in the framework of national or international collaborations.

>>> Access facility Celia

Address:
Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications
351 cours de la Libération
33405 Talence Cedex
France

Phone +33 5 40 00 3775

www.celia.u-bordeaux1.fr