Physics Nobel 2023: How The Laureates Generated Short Light Pulses to Study Electron Movement

Physics Nobel: Anne L'Huillier, Pierre Agostini, and Ferenc Krausz received the Physics Nobel for creating flashes of light that are short enough to capture the extremely rapid movements of electrons.

Physics Nobel 2023: An attosecond is a unit of time and is equal to 10^(-18) of a second. Pulses are flashes of light. By generating attosecond pulses of light, or flashes of light that have an extremely small duration, one can study the movements of electrons.  ( Image Source :The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences )

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: French physicists Anne L'Huillier and Pierre Agostini, and Hungarian-Austrian physicist Ferenc Krausz were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 3, 2023. They received the Physics Nobel for creating flashes of light that are short enough to capture the extremely rapid movements of electrons. L'Huillier is the fifth woman to win a Physics Nobel.  According to the Nobel Prize organisation, they were awarded the Nobel "for experimental methods that