Lasers

Solid-State Lasers
for Science, Industry and Space

Thales proposes a wide range of lasers solutions for the most demanding applications.

For more than 30 years, Thales has been a world leader in design, development and manufacturing of high energy lasers and high intensity, ultra-short Titanium Sapphire femtosecond lasers :

Diod pumped and flash lamp pumped nanosecond Lasers.
Custom or standard femtosecond systems with high peak power and high average power

Beyond the exceptional technical performances, Thales aims to provide the most reliable and easy-to-use system.

Our hands on laser training

Looking for a solid academic and practical training programme in the field of multi-TeraWatt to multi-PetaWatt lasers ?
Take a look at our brochure about the Thales hands on laser training.

We have teamed with the best partners to come up with a one-week schedule that will allow you enhance your position within the scientific community by gaining knowledge and networking with industry professionals.

Thales Laser Training

Laser Training

Discover the key benefits of our training offer

News

27 November 2019

At the heart of future cooperation in scientific research between France and China

In the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron, Thales, Peking University and Ecole Polytechnique signed on Nov 6, 2019 in Beijing at the Great Hall of the People a strategic Agreement for future cooperation in Scientific Research in the area of Physics.

27 November 2019

ELI-NP is now ready to welcome world scientists!

The most powerful laser system in the world developed and installed by Thales in Romania with the capacity to deliver pulses with the record power level of 10 petawatts, was formally accepted on October 11, 2019 by our Customer, the National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering Horia Hulubei (IFIN-HH).

20 March 2019

World record for Thales Laser Tech !

The Extreme Light Infrastructure for Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) project in Romania recently reached on March 20, 2019 a significant milestone: the ultra-high intensity laser system developed by Thales has successfully generated its first pulses at a peak power level of 10 petawatts (PW) equivalent to 1016 watts : 10.9PW, 327] at 1 shot/min compressed in a pulse just 22.3 femtoseconds long to be precise.

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APPLICATIONS

Research & Development
focus

Our continuous research activities are key factor in the ever increasing performance of our systems and expanding range of their applications.

We have established strong and long-term relation with well-known laboratories and partners ensuring smooth research to industry transfer of new processes and lasers concepts. In this R&D network, Thales central research facilities play a key role and French famous laboratories are involved such as LOA, LULI, CNRS,CEA,Institut d’Optique, ENSTA,...

Part of our R&D activity is also the participation to world reknowned laser programs, such as BELLA Project for LBNL in USA, CETAL Project for INFLPR in Romania, and ELI-NP Project for IFIN-HH in Romania.

Another demonstration of our R&D capability is the CHEMCAM instrument, for which a spatial laser for LIBS analysis of the martian soil has been designed. The CHEMCAM instrument is integrated into the CURIOSITY rover which was successfully launched on Mars in August 2012. This program has been performed in collaboration with CNES (France) and NASA (USA).

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