2022 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2022

Session

M-HERZ Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture | Conférence publique commémorative Herzberg - D. Strickland, U. Waterloo

M-HERZ

6 Jun 2022, 19:30

McMaster University

Conveners

M-HERZ Herzberg Memorial Public Lecture | Conférence publique commémorative Herzberg - D. Strickland, U. Waterloo

• Manu Paranjape

3251. Generating High-Intensity, Ultra-short Optical Pulses

Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo)

06/06/2022, 19:30

Herzberg Public and Plenary Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg et plénières

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier(ère) plénier(ère)

With the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light bulb or sunlight. This much higher intensity led to new phenomena being observed, such as violet light coming out when red light went into the material. After Gérard Mourou and I developed chirped pulse amplification, also known as CPA, the intensity again...