Design and current progress of the Apollon 10 PW project

J-P Zou (1) , C Le Blanc (1) , Dimitrios Papadopoulos (1) , Gilles Chériaux (2) , Patrick Georges (3) , G Mennerat (4) , Frédéric Druon (3) , L Lecherbourg (1) , A Pellegrina (1, 3) , Patricia Ramirez (1, 3) , Fabio Giambruno (1, 2) , Antoine Fréneaux (1, 2) , F Leconte (1, 2) , D Badarau (1) , J. M Boudenne (1) , D Fournet (1) , T Valloton (1) , Jean-Luc Paillard (1) , J. L. Veray (1) , M Pina (1) , P Monot (4) , Jean Paul Chambaret (4) , Pierre Martin (4) , F. Mathieu (1) , P Audebert (1) , François Amiranoff (1)

1 LULI - Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses
2 LOA - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée
3 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Lasers
4 LIDyl - Laboratoire Interactions, Dynamiques et Lasers (ex SPAM)

The objective of the Apollon project is the generation of 10 PW peak power pulses of 15 fs at 1 shot/minute. In this paper the Apollon facility design, the technological challenges and the current progress of the project will be presented.

Domains: Physics [physics]; Physics [physics]; Optics [physics.optics]

J-P Zou, C Le Blanc, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Gilles Chériaux, Patrick Georges, et al.. Design and current progress of the Apollon 10 PW project. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2015, 3 (e2), 4 p. ⟨10.1017/hpl.2014.41⟩. ⟨hal-01306154⟩