Aix-Marseille Université
ASUR is a unique femtosecond laser facility in Europe for the imaging and analysis of matter under excitation.
The facility consists of five beamlines: 20/10 TW; 10/100 Hz; 500/250 mJ; 5/25 W; 25 fs (ext. 15 fs).
PE8_9 - Production technology, process engineering - Products and Processes Engineering
PE11_8 - Engineering of alternative established or emergent materials - Materials Engineering
PE3_9 - Condensed matter – beam interactions (photons, electrons, etc.) - Condensed Matter Physics
Femtosecond Laser
Short-pulsed X-ray source
_ Ultra-high intensity
Plasma physics
Ultrafast dynamics in condensed matter research
Laser damage and _Laser-matter structuration
ASUR is open to both the academic and private sectors. Requests must be sent to the scientist in charge of the facility along with a detailed research project description stressing the objectives, technical requirements and experimental scheme, schedule and agenda, and CV of the applicants). Accces is guaranteed under the guidance and permanent authority of the on-site facility team.
Among the services ASUR can provide are the following:
- Generation of X-ray sources for imaging and analysis of excited matter,
- Metrology of damage in the ultra-short regime,
- Ionization of materials in non-equilibrium regime,
- High peak and average power laser developments,
- Structuring of matter at the (sub)-micrometric scale.