Partners - CLPU

Description: This Center is a Consortium between the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, the
Regional Government of the Junta de Castilla y Leon and the University of Salamanca. The Consortium was
established in 2007 to build a National Center for Ultraintense Lasers and specifically to build a PW laser
with Ti:Sapphire technology of approximately 20 J / 20 fs. The Consortium is presently working at the
dependences of the Servicio Laser of the University of Salamanca,, and will move in two years to a
dedicated specific new building.

Excellence: The CLPU is the National Centre for such lasers. It is opened to Users (mostly from Spain, but
some international Users have already been received). It operates a 20 TW laser.

Main tasks: Organisation of Task 4 (Thematic Network NAUUL) in WP 4 (Networking Activity 3) and of
the User Training, supported by a subcontract with UCM in WP 5 (Networking Activity 4)

Previous experience: Since 2003 the Laser Service at the University of Salamanca operates a 0.5 TW
Ti:Sappire laser. The laboratory is since then the reference laboratory in Spain for ultraintense lasers.

Address:

Patio de Escuelas, 1

37008 Salamanca, Spain

Phone: +34 (0)923 294678

www.clpu.es