Apollon Facility Short Focal Length Area Commissioning

We present here the results of the commissioning of the "short focal length" area, which was performed with the first available laser beam of the Apollon laser facility (Saclay, France), i.e. using the presently available F2 beam at a nominal power of one petawatt. This beam delivered laser pulses of 10 J average on-target energy with pulse durations of 25 fs.