Women in Mathematics presents Nobel Laureate, Professor Donna Strickland
Talk Title: Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical PulsesÌý
Abstract:ÌýWith the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light waveÌýwas increased by orders of magnitude over what had beenÌýachieved with a light bulb or sunlight. This much higherÌýintensity led to new phenomena being observed, such asÌýviolet light coming out when red light went into the material. After Gérard Mourou and I developed chirped pulseÌýamplification, also known as CPA, the intensity again increasedÌýby more than a factor of 1,000 and it once againÌýmade new types of interactions possible between light andÌýmatter. We developed a laser that could deliver shortÌýpulses of light that knocked the electrons off their atoms.ÌýThis new understanding of laser-matter interactions, ledÌýto the development of new machining techniques that areÌýused in laser eye surgery or micromachining of glass usedÌýin cell phones.
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