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