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Canadian professor Donna Strickland, American Arthur Ashkin and French scientist Gérard Mourou won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics announced on Tuesday for work in laser physics. Strickland is ...

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Researchers in Switzerland and the US have developed a new theoretical framework for describing a wide range of lasers — including unconventional systems called diffusive random lasers, which had ...

Light still holds surprises—as demonstrated by researchers from the Ultrafast Phenomena Lab at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, in collaboration with the Institute of Low Temperature and ...

The work was done in the 1980s at the University of Rochester when Strickland was a graduate student in Mourou’s lab. Strickland is just the third woman to win a physics Nobel.

This year's prize represents not just a single example of brilliant work, but generations of advancements that led to it.

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The CPA works through a consequence of the underlying symmetry in quantum physics: a process that occurs over time can be reversed as if time itself was reversed, by changing the direction of ...