What is Gérard Mourou?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Gérard Mourou | image = Gérard Mourou, 2014.jpg | alt = | caption = Gérard Mourou in 2014 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|6|22}} | birth_place = [[Albertville]], France | birth_name = Gérard Albert Mourou | other_names = GA Mourou |work_institution=[[École Polytechnique]]<br>[[ENSTA ParisTech]]<br>[[University of Rochester]]<br>[[University of Michigan]] | known_for = [[Chirped pulse amplification]] | awards = [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] {{small|(2018)}} }} {{nobelprize|Physics}}'''Gérard Albert Mourou''' (born June 22, 1944) is a French scientist. He worked in electrical engineering and [[lasers]]. With [[Donna Strickland]], he won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for their co-invention of a technique called [[chirped pulse amplification]], or CPA.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080905085848/http://www.engin.umich.edu/research/cuos/ResearchGroups/HFS/Profiles/Gerard_Mourou.html Gérard Mourou Profile] engin.umich.edu Retrieved 2 October 2018</ref> In 1994, Mourou and his team at the [[University of Michigan]] discovered that the balance between [[Kerr effect]] and self-[[diffraction]] by [[ion]]ization act as [[waveguide]]s for the beam. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://loa.ensta.fr/index_gb.html Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525020429/http://loa.ensta.fr/index_gb.html |date=2009-05-25 }} *[http://www.polytechnique.edu/ Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau] *[https://cuos.engin.umich.edu/ Center for Ultrafast Optical Science] {{Nobel Prize in Physics}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mourou, Gerard}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:French physicists]] {{bio-stub}}