Partners - SLIC

Description: A research centre dedicated to ultrafast photosciences, SLIC houses ultrafast (25-50fs) laser
facilities featuring ultra-high intensities (1020 W/cm2) with ultra-high temporal contrast (>1010), high
intensity at high repetition rate (0.4TW @ 1 kHz), large tuneability (500-750 nm) up to femto/attosecond
XUV beamlines. Set-ups are available for femtochemistry, solid state physics and plasma physics
experiments. Development of ultrafast lasers and diagnostics, applications of intense femto/attosecond XUV
sources, particle acceleration, laser-solid interaction, organic femtochemistry are the main lines of research
carried out by the SLIC internal community of 50 researchers.

Excellence: Research with short-pulse (femtosecond/attosecond) and high-intensity/high contrast lasers

Main tasks: SLIC will provide 332 days of Access; it is estimated that 16 projects will be hosted involving
about 40 Users. In ALADIN, SLIC will produce high energy attosecond pulses from High Order Harmonics
in gases (microjoule/pulse) and plasma (mJ/pulse), for application to ultrafast imaging of molecules and
nano-objects. In LAPTECH, SLIC will study electron acceleration in the “bubble regime”, characterizing
electron beams (charge, energy, duration, emittance) as well as plasma wake-field stability and scalability.

Previous experience: Since 2003, SLIC has provided more than 500 days of Access within the FP5 and FP6
Transnational Access programmes and received 105 Users involved in 32 projects. Within the LASERLAB
EUROPE (FP6) FOSCIL JRA, SLIC has obtained important results on production of intense XUV pulses
and their complete characterization. SLIC participated to the FP6 European projects XTRA (Marie-Curie RTN), TUIXS (NEST), dedicated to the applications of ultrafast coherent XUV pulses, and EUROFEL
(Design Studies)

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Address:
Saclay Laser-Matter Application Centre
CE Saclay
91191 Gif Sur Yvette
France

Phone +33 (0)1 69 08 82 60

www-femtodrecam.cea.fr/slic/