Gérard Mourou: French physicist
Gérard Albert Mourou (born June 22, 1944) is a French scientist.
He worked in electrical engineering and lasers.
Gérard Mourou | |
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 Gérard Mourou in 2014 | |
| Born | Gérard Albert Mourou June 22, 1944 Albertville, France |
| Other names | GA Mourou |
| Known for | Chirped pulse amplification |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (2018) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | École Polytechnique ENSTA ParisTech University of Rochester University of Michigan |
With Donna Strickland, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their co-invention of a technique called chirped pulse amplification, or CPA.
In 1994, Mourou and his team at the University of Michigan discovered that the balance between Kerr effect and self-diffraction by ionization act as waveguides for the beam.
References
Other websites
- Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee Archived 2009-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
- Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
- Center for Ultrafast Optical Science
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