The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2023 was awarded to three researchers who are working on the shortest pulses of light ever produced by humans. These light pulses last only a few tens of billionths of a billionth of a second (attoseconds). Such extremely short light pulses allow the experimental investigation of correspondingly fast processes, which is of crucial importance for the study of electron dynamics in matter.

“For experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter” Pierre Agostini from Ohio State University, Ferenc Krausz from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Anne L'Huillier from Lund University have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics. L'Huillier is the fifth woman ever to receive this honor.

Just six months after the award ceremony in Stockholm, the French-Swedish scientist will give a public lecture as part of the "Nobel Laureates at TU Dresden" series. On 28 June 2024 at 7 p.m. in the Audimax of TU Dresden, she will give an insight into her complex field and the beginnings of her work forty years ago - without a computer. In 1987, Anne L'Huillier discovered that many different overtones of light were created when she sent infrared laser light through a noble gas. In the time domain, this radiation forms a train of extremely short light pulses, of the order of 100 attoseconds. Attosecond pulses allow the study of the dynamics of electrons in atoms and molecules, using pump-probe techniques. Anne L'Huillier further explored this phenomenon and laid the foundation for later breakthroughs.

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Public lecture:
Friday, 28 June 2024, 7 pm
Audimax, TU Dresden
Anne L'Huillier
"Attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics"

Admission is free. Please register at: https://tud.de/mn/nobel

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