Gérard Mourou

Gérard Albert Mourou (born June 22, 1944) is a French scientist. He worked in electrical engineering and lasers.

With Donna Strickland, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their co-invention of a technique called chirped pulse amplification, or CPA.Gérard Mourou Profile engin.umich.edu Retrieved 2 October 2018 

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.

References

Other websites
Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee 
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Center for Ultrafast Optical Science

Category:1944 births
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Category:French physicists
Category:Nobel Prize in Physics winners