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On April 13, 2023, the most powerful laser system in the world, designed, developed, installed by Thales at ELI- NP research center in Magurele, Romania, for its partner the IFIN-HH – Horia Hulubei National institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering, and join...

Who doesn’t dream about it? A cheap, inexhaustible energy source, with no waste or radioactive emissions. This is the promise of a unique laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) process developed by German start-up Marvel Fusion. The process requires the use of u...

One year ago almost to the day, on the evening of 18 February 2021, the Mars 2020 mission’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater, carrying with it the French-U.S. SuperCam, a greatly enhanced version of the ChemCam instrument already operating on the NASA MSL mis...

Cutting-edge laser technology from Thales on board the new Mars rover is set to help discover whether there was past life on the planet.  

Research into particle acceleration might just be on the threshold of a revolution. In the ongoing quest to understand the universe, humankind needs new tools to accelerate particles to even higher speeds so we can delve further into the infinitesimally small building ...

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 Nu...

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 1...