Joint ARCNL/AMOLF Colloquium: The 2023 Nobel prize in physics
This year’s Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.
Attosecond science as well as high-harmonic generation – the underlying physical processes to generate attosecond pulses – is currently researched at ARCNL and was a major topic at AMOLF in the 1990’s and 2000’s. One of the experimental methods to measure trains of attosecond pulses is called RABBITT, an acronym for reconstruction of attosecond beating by interference of two-photon transitions.[1] This method, which won Pierre Agostini of the above trio the Nobel prize, was proposed and co-developed at AMOLF, by AMOLF group leader Harm Geert Muller.
In this extra colloquium, ARCNL group leader Peter Kraus will start off by introducing the field of attosecond science, and Harm Geert Muller will continue to explain his and Agostini’s work within the AMOLF-Saclay-Palaiseau collaboration that led to the prize winning publication.[1]
