Gregory's Server2023 Physics Nobel Laureate Anne L’Huillier :
Current affiliation: Professor at Lund University, Sweden.
Born: 1958 in Paris, France
PhD: 1986 from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris and Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA).
Postdoc: Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden; the University of Southern California, USC Los Angeles.
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The goal of attosecond physics is to generate light pulses that are 10s to 100s of attoseconds long from laser light which has much longer wave period (e.g., infrared light lasers with wave periods of femtoseconds).
A secondary goal is to extract isolated attosecond pulses from the pulse trains.
These pulses can be used to provide images of processes inside atoms and molecules that occur at attosecond time scales.
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The goal of attosecond physics is to generate light pulses that are 10s to 100s of attoseconds long from laser light which has much longer wave period (e.g., infrared light lasers with wave periods of femtoseconds).
A secondary goal is to extract isolated attosecond pulses from the pulse trains.
These pulses can be used to provide images of processes inside atoms and molecules that occur at attosecond time scales.