French physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gérard Albert Mourou (born June 22, 1944) is a French scientist. He worked in electrical engineering and lasers.
Gérard Mourou | |
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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.[1]
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.
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