Focused on plasma science, LPP combine theoretical, experimental, and numerical approaches to address a wide range of applications, including magnetically confined fusion plasmas, space plasmas and cold plasmas.
LPP has been selected to operate instruments at major international large-scale facilities, such as tokamaks and space missions. Research on cold plasmas, which has strong application potential, has led in particular to the creation of a start-up and to the establishment of an industrial Chair (POSEIDON).
Since its creation in 1988, LULI has focused on the study of dense and hot plasmas generated by intense laser irradiation. Historically dedicated to inertial confinement fusion, LULI has progressively broadened its research scope to include laboratory astrophysics and ultra-high-intensity laser-matter interactions.
LULI provides state-of-art laser systems and multi-beam experimental facilities to a broad international user community. The laboratory is also developing research programs on radiation-produced plasmas and their applications.
LOA is recognized as a leading research center in fundamental and applied ultrafast laser–plasma physics, with the mission of understanding and revealing the properties of matter under strong excitation and at the shortest temporal and spatial scales.
Its activities span a broad spectrum, from academic research to industrial and societal applications. Among its major achievements, LOA currently leads four ERC grants and participates in two EQUIPEX projects.
LPICM focuses on the use of large-area, low-temperature plasma processes for the fabrication of optoelectronic materials, with applications in photovoltaics, electronics, sensors, and batteries, through national and international collaborations.
The laboratory participates in the Institut Photovoltaïque d’Île-de-France (IPVF), supported by the PIA state program, and is responsible for the PISTOL Industrial Chair.
At CPHT, two teams focus on plasma physics: one on hot magnetized plasmas and the other on laser-generated plasmas. Both teams aim to bridge theoretical modeling of fundamental processes with the development of advanced numerical methods enabling multi-scale simulations. They work closely with experimentalists through national and international collaborations to support the interpretation of experimental data and maintain long-standing partnerships with LOA, LPICM, LULI, and LPP.
At CMAP, ten researchers, including software engineers, have strong expertise in the fundamental fluid modeling of plasma flows, spanning kinetic theory, asymptotic analysis, the development of advanced numerical methods for strongly multiscale problems, and high-performance computing on new architectures (HPC@Maths initiative). The team also includes several PhD students and postdoctoral fellows working on plasma physics simulations.
CMAP conducts collaborative research on a range of plasma applications with LPP and LPICM, as well as with the Aerospace Department of the von Karman Institute and NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division.
LSI develops and maintains a simulation code for laser–plasma interactions aimed at the production of fast electrons, in collaboration with CPHT and LULI.