French physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
Gérard Mourou is a French physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 for his groundbreaking work in the field of laser physics. His contributions to science have made him one of the most recognized figures in modern physics research.
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Gérard Albert Mourou ( French: [ʒeʁaʁ muʁu]; born 22 June 1944) is a French scientist and pioneer in the field of electrical engineering and lasers. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, along with Donna Strickland, for the invention of chirped pulse amplification, a technique later used to create ultrashort-pulse, very high-intensity (petawatt) laser pulses.
In 1994, Mourou and his team at the University of Michigan discovered that the balance between the self-focusing refraction (see Kerr effect) and self-attenuating diffraction by ionization and rarefaction of a laser beam of terawatt intensities in the atmosphere creates "filaments" that act as waveguides for the beam, thus preventing divergence.
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