The APOLLON facility occupies about 4,500 m². The laser hall is located in an ISO8 cleanroom with a useful area of 800 m² and the laser beams are distributed across two experimental rooms, covering surfaces of 280 m² (SFA) and 490 m² (LFA, allowing focal lengths of several tens of meters). 5 m-thick concrete walls provide full radio protection.
Currently, one laser beam - F2 - is available in SFA. It is focused by an off-axis focal parabola with short focal length (42 cm) and the resulting focal spot has a diameter of 6.5 µm, with a Strehl ratio greater than 50%. A deformable mirror is implemented and will allow to reach intensities in the order of 10²² W/cm².
SFA is equipped with a single aluminum interaction chamber with inner height 120 cm and inner diameter 172 cm.
F2-SFA
APOLLON Support
An area of 520 m² is dedicated to support activities such as the control of optical components, a laser development space for new diagnostics, and a vacuum outgasing control laboratory. There are also 650 m² of control rooms, meeting rooms, and offices for operating teams and users.
In addition, a target lab is available at the LULI laboratory. Its main function is to provide the necessary skills to manufacture and characterize targets used for the experiments. Various designs and aspects are studied, ranging from simple sheets of solid materials to liquid or gaseous cells.
- Time-resolved studies
- Time-resolved studies
- Time-resolved studies
- Fluorescence imaging
- Elastic scattering
- Inelastic scattering
- Astronomy/Astrophysics/Astroparticles
- Atomic & molecular physics
- High energy & particle physics
- High-field science, non-linear X-ray Optics
- Matter under extreme conditions, warm dense matter, plasmas
- Optics
- Quantum electronics & optics
- Technique Development - Physics
- depending on the implemented diagnostic instrument and on the providing company (ANDOR, HAMAMATSU, etc.)
- depending on the implemented diagnostic instrument and on the providing company: mainly binary files
- depending on the implemented diagnostic instrument and on the providing company: .sif, .img, .txt, .dat, etc.
