Gérard Mourou
Gérard Albert Mourou (; born 22 June 1944) is a French scientist and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, along with Donna Strickland, for the invention of chirped pulse amplification, a technique later used to create ultrashort-pulse, very high-intensity (petawatt) laser pulses.In 1994, Mourou and his team at the University of Michigan discovered that the balance between the self-focusing refraction (see Kerr effect) and self-attenuating diffraction by ionization and rarefaction of a laser beam of terawatt intensities in the atmosphere creates "filaments" that act as waveguides for the beam, thus preventing divergence. Provided by Wikipedia
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2by Xiaomei Zhang, Toshiki Tajima, Deano Farinella, Youngmin Shin, Gerard Mourou, Jonathan Wheeler, Peter Taborek, Pisin Chen, Franklin Dollar, Baifei ShenGet full text
Published 2016-11-01
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