Thematic school 2026

Ultrafast sources of coherent light: current research and emerging applications

The Houches Physics School, France, March 23 to 27, 2026

The workshop is devoted to bringing prominent scientists in ultrafast and nonlinear optics together with the goal of, starting from fundamentals, providing overviews of recent research work, covering emerging applications, and devising future directions in the field. It aims at giving to PhD students and post-doctoral researchers a broad coverage, from pulse generation and manipulation to characterization, from the THz domain to the XUV, and describe applications spanning from time-resolved spectroscopy to secondary sources of light and particles. The workshop is motivated by the current blooming of ultrafast sources and applications, triggered by the wide availability of robust and high power femtosecond lasers, and the rapid development of methods to convert them into sources with a wide range of parameters in terms of pulsewidth, central wavelength, or control over the electric field. It will be a unique opportunity to get a unified vision of this research area, and contribute to developing new collaborations and cross-fertilizing the sources and applications communities.

Ecoles thématiques 2026

Sources ultrarapides de lumière cohérente : recherche actuelle et applications émergentes

Ecole de Physique des Houches, du 23 au 27 mars 2026

L'école thématique a pour but de rassembler d'éminents scientifiques dans le domaine de l'optique ultrarapide et non linéaire, en commençant par les principes fondamentaux, en fournissant des aperçus des travaux de recherche récents, en couvrant les applications émergentes et en concevant des orientations futures dans le domaine. Il vise à donner aux doctorants et aux chercheurs post-doctoraux une large couverture, de la génération et de la manipulation d'impulsions à la caractérisation, du domaine THz au XUV, et à décrire des applications allant de la spectroscopie résolue en temps aux sources secondaires de lumière et de particules. L'atelier est motivé par la floraison actuelle de sources et d'applications ultrarapides, déclenchée par la large disponibilité de lasers femtosecondes robustes et de haute puissance, et par le développement rapide de méthodes pour les convertir en sources avec une large gamme de paramètres en termes de largeur d'impulsion, de longueur d'onde centrale, ou de contrôle du champ électrique. Ce sera une occasion unique d'obtenir une vision unifiée de ce domaine de recherche, et de contribuer au développement de nouvelles collaborations et à la fertilisation croisée des communautés des sources et des applications.

Lecturers

Anne L'Huillier (Lund University) - Attosecond sciences
Clara Saraceno (Bochum University) - THz sources and applications
Nathalie Picqué (Max Born Institute, Berlin) - Frequency combs spectroscopy
Jérôme Faure (LOA, Palaiseau)- Particle acceleration at ultra-high intensity
Spencer Jolly (Université Libre de Bruxelles) - Spatio-temporal shaping
Dimitris Papadopoulos (LULI, Palaiseau) - Ultra-high intensity sources
John Dudley (Femto-ST, Besançon) - IA for ultrafast photonics
Emmanuel Beaurepaire (LOB, Palaiseau) - Nonlinear microscopy
Thierry Ruchon (LiDyl, CEA Saclay) - Linear & nonlinear propagation of ultrashort pulses

The scientific program committee

Aurélie JULLIEN (INPHYNI, CNRS,Université Côte d'Azur)
Marc HANNA (LCF, Institut d'Optique Graduate School - CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay)

Registration fee

770€

(670€ + 100€ Extras services - Excl. Taxes)
The school is a limited number of 70 participants.

FEES INCLUDES

full board, from dinner on the day of arrival to lunch on the day of departure. You will be housed in single rooms in chalet and Extras services.

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Submission campaign: until October 15, 2025

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Thematic school 2026

ULTRAFAST

The Houches Physics School, France
March 23 to 27, 2026

Organizers of SFO thematic School
Aurélie JULLIEN (INPHYNI, CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur)
Marc HANNA (LCF, Institut d'Optique Graduate School - CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay)

The school starts on Monday March 23th 2026,
Sunday March 22th from 3pm for an arrival in the afternoon, and lasts till Friday March 27th, at noon.

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Deadline for application: October 22, 2025

With a short motivation letter (200 words max) and a short CV presenting your research activities and your Scientific abstract.

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ADDRESS OF THE SCHOOL
Les Houches School of Physics
140 Chemin de la Côte
F-74310 Les Houches
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