Purpose

Soft laser neutralization (burning with
possible avoidance of detonation) of
all types of explosive devices
(landmines, Improvised Explosive
Devices, UneXplosed Ordnance,
Mortar, etc.) in diff erent scenarios:

• military battlefi eld
• force protection
• campaign against terrorism
• humanitarian mine clearance. 

TMR4 antipersonnel landmine after
soft laser neutralization



Neutralization of an explosive charge
under a 1 mm steel casing

Skills

• Experimental and theoretical
  laser-material interaction study
• Laser parameter optimization according
  to the envelope type and the nature of
  the explosive
• Modelisation of laser-material interaction
• Metrology of fast phenomena.

Facilities

• Large laser park (pulsed and continuous
  wave laser from a few watts to tens of
  kilowatts, visible and infrared sources)
• Simulation codes
• Test facilities (proving ground allowing
  work with explosive quantities up to 6 kg).

TMA2 antipersonnel landmine during
burning initiated by laser


Simulation of the laser irradiation of an
energetic material located under a casing