  The Centro de Laseres Pulsados in Salamanca Spain has recently started
operation phase and the first User access period on the 6 J 30 fs 200 TW system
(VEGA 2) already started at the beginning of 2018. In this paper we report on
two commissioning experiments recently performed on the VEGA 2 system in
preparation for the user campaign. VEGA 2 system has been tested in different
configurations depending on the focusing optics and targets used. One
configuration (long focal length f=130 cm) is for under-dense laser-matter
interaction where VEGA 2 is focused onto a low density gas-jet generating
electron beams (via laser wake field acceleration mechanism) with maximum
energy up to 500 MeV and an X-ray betatron source with a 10 keV critical
energy. A second configuration (short focal length f=40 cm) is for over-dense
laser-matter interaction where VEGA 2 is focused onto an 5 microns thick Al
target generating a proton beam with a maximum energy of 10 MeV and average
energy of 7-8 MeV and temperature of 2.5 MeV. In this paper we present
preliminary experimental results.
