As a key player on the Scientific Laser Marketplace, Thales has a large R&D activity to constantly release innovative solutions on the markets.
Our continous research activites are key factor in the always increasing performance of our systems, and in the ever expanding range of their applications.
We have established strong and long-term relation with well-known laboratories and partners ensuring smooth research to industry transfer of new processes and lasers concepts. In this R&D network, Thales Research & Technology (TRT) plays a key role and french famous laboratories are involved (LOA, LULI, CNRS,CEA,Institut d’Optique, ENSTA,..)
Part of our R&D activity is also the participation to famous laser programs,such as BELLA Project for LBNL in USA, CETAL Project for INFLPR in Romania, and, ELI-NP Project for IFIN-HH in Romania.
Another demonstration of our R&D capability is the CHEMCAM instrument, for which a spatial laser for LIBS analysis of the martian soil has been designed. The CHEMCAM instrument is integrated in the CURIOSITY rover which were launched successfully on Mars in August 2012. This program has been performed in collaboration with CNES (France) and NASA (USA)