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wo X-ray beam lines are developed in the frame of the COLA project: - Broadband X-ray source. A broadband multi-keV X-ray source is in operation with a 1 kHz repetition rate. Derived from the “Aurore” laser sytem of CELIA (1 kHz, 10 mJ, 30 fs, 800 nm), it delivers extremely brief X-ray bursts, from a few ps down to a few hundreds of fs only. This line is dedicated to time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy. - Hard X-ray source. Another X-ray source is being developed from the “Eclipse” laser sytem of CELIA (10 Hz, 200 mJ, 35 fs, 800 nm). The objective is to achieve the hard X-ray range (10 – 100 keV) for possible applications to the medical and industrial radiography. Each of these devices include a synchronized optical laser beam in order to perform “pump – probe” experiments. The “pump” optical pulse initiates ultra-fast phenomena, while the other laser beam is converted in an ultra-fast X-ray pulse to “probe” the phenomena dynamics with extreme time-resolution. These X-ray beam lines are proposed to external users from the Région Aquitaine, France or European community. A first collaboration has already started with the LNE team (Laser Nuclear Excitation) of CENBG laboratory.

COLA (Centre Optique et Laser en Aquitaine) laser facilities is supported by two homemade femtosecond Ti:sapphire lasers based on the Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) scheme - Aurore & Eclipse