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New Innovative Technique Helps Researchers Increase Intensity of Lasers

New Innovative Technique Helps Researchers Increase Intensity of Lasers

17 juillet 2020

Mise à jour : 18 août 2020

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Thus researchers Jean-Claude Kieffer of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), E. A. Khazanov of the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Gérard Mourou, Professor Emeritus of the Ecole Polytechnique in France, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, have chosen another direction to achieve an intensity of around 10^23 W/cm². Rather than increasing the energy of the laser, they decrease the pulse duration to only a few femtoseconds. This would keep the system within a reasonable size and keep operating costs down.