ALPhANOV, through its capacity to mobilize competencies and expertise in the field of optics and lasers, acts as a "technological amplifier" serving innovative projects for research scientists, engineers, laboratory specialists, SMEs and corporate industrial groups. ALPhANOV’s expertise and technological resources serve four main missions : - Participating to the creation and development of companies by providing competitive edge based on innovative solutions that meet their expectations. - Enabling the valorization of laboratory research and technology transfer. - Building collaborative projects, bringing technologies to maturity and accelerating the introduction of products to the market. - Making optical and laser resources/services available.

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

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.