Physicists who built ultrafast ‘attosecond’ lasers win Nobel Prize
- ️Sanderson, Katharine
- ️Tue Oct 03 2023
- NEWS
- 03 October 2023
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier receive award for ultra-short pulses of light, which have enabled the close study of electrons.
- Davide Castelvecchi
- Katharine Sanderson
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three physicists — Pierre Agostini at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, and Anne L’Huillier at Lund University, Sweden — for their research into attosecond pulses of light.
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Nature 622, 225-227 (2023)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03047-w
Additional reporting by Myriam Naddaf.
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