A new versatile Nd:glass 200 J facility: ALISE; or from monochromatic and smoothed nanosecond pulses towards the ultra-intense femtosecond regime

Summary form only given. The ALISE facility is a new power chain constructed in the CEA-CESTA. We distinguish three main stages: the frontend, the power chain, and the experimental rooms (target chamber and laser experiments). The femtosecond pulses are Ti:sapphire technology stretched to 2 ns and amplified up to few mJ by a Ti:sapphire regenerative laser amplifier. The preamplifier module is a diode pumped Nd:glass regenerative amplifier.