“for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”
Gérard Mourou is a French physicist known for his work in laser physics and ultrafast optics. He shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing a method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses, known as chirped pulse amplification.
- Field
- Physics · Laser Physics
- Lifespan
- 1944–