We’re excited to share that our latest research paper has been published: Coherent combining of large-aperture high-energy Nd:glass laser amplifiers P. Lebegue, J. De Sousa, C. Rapenau, D. Badarau, J. Andrieu, P. Audebert, F. Druon and D. Papadopouloshttp://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2024.84 Abstract: We present coherent beam combining of nanosecond pulses with 20-J[…]

Exciting news – a new paper from our team has been published recently: Apollon Real-Time Adaptive Optics (ARTAO) – Astronomy-Inspired Wavefront Stabilization in Ultraintense LasersJ. B. Ohland, N. Lebas, V. Deo, O. Guyon, F. Mathieu, P. Audebert and D. Papadopouloshttps://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2025.16 Abstract: Traditional wavefront control in high-energy, high-intensity laser systems[…]

An innovative laser beam optimization technique, named “Zernike-coefficient Extraction via Helical Beam Reconstruction for Optimization” (ZEHBRO), has been presented in a recent publication released in the journal “High Power Laser Science and Engineering” by THRILL researchers. In the pursuit for higher beam quality in Work Package 5 (“Beam Transport[…]