Anne L'Huillier

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Anne L'Huillier (* 1958 in Paris ) is a French physicist who is professor of atomic physics at Lund University .

L'Huillier initially pursued training in theoretical physics, but switched to experimental atomic physics for her doctorate at the French nuclear research center of the CEA in Saclay . Her dissertation was on multiple ionization in high intensity laser fields. As a post-doctoral student , she was in Gothenburg and Los Angeles. From 1986 she was permanently employed at the research center in Saclay. In 1992 she took part in an experiment in Lund, where one of the first titanium: sapphire lasers for femtosecond pulses was installed in Europe and in 1994 she moved entirely to Sweden, becoming a lecturer in Lund in 1995 and a professor in 1997. There she heads the group for attosecond physics

In 1987 she took part in an experiment that showed the generation of (uneven) high-order harmonics (High Harmonic Generation, HHG) when irradiating noble gases with Nd: YAG lasers operated in pulsed mode in the picosecond range . Here n photons are absorbed by the atom and a single photon of energy is emitted (nth harmonic). McPherson and colleagues succeeded in generating HHG in gases in 1987 and a little later, after a sharp initial drop, L'Huillier and colleagues showed the formation of a plateau in the intensity of the higher harmonics from around the fifth. She also dealt further with HHG (e.g. coherence properties, phase adjustment) and works both experimentally and theoretically. In the 1990s she applied higher harmonics to the generation of attosecond pulses.

L'Huillier has been a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2004 and was a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics from 2007-2015 . In 1997 she became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2003 she received the Julius Springer Prize and in 2011 a UNESCO L'Oréal Prize . In 2013 she was awarded the Carl Zeiss Research Prize and the Blaise Pascal Medal . In 2015 she received an honorary doctorate from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , and in 2018 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

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  • with Phillipe Balcou phase-matching effects in strong-field harmonic generation , Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 47, 1993, pp. 1447-1459, abstract
  • mit P. Balcou High-order harmonic generation in rare gases with a 1-ps 1053-nm laser , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 70, 1993, pp. 774-777, abstract
  • with P. Balcou, LA Lompré Coherence and resonance effects in high-order harmonic generation , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 68, 1992, pp. 166-169, abstract

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. McPherson et al. a. Journal of the Optical Society of America, B, Volume 4, 1987, p. 595
  2. ↑ M. Ferray, A. L'Huillier, XF Li, LA Lompre, G. Mainfray, C. Manus Multiple-harmonic conversion of 1064 nm radiation in rare gases , Journal of Physics B, Volume 21, 1988, L31, abstract
  3. ^ XF Li, A. L'Huillier, M. Ferray, LA Lompre, G. Mainfray, Physical Review A, Volume 39, 1989, p. 5751
  4. ^ P. Antoine, L'Huillier, M. Lewenstein Attosecond pulse trains using high order harmonics , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 77, 1996, p. 1234
  5. ↑ Prof. Anne L'huillier - AcademiaNet ( en )
personal data
SURNAME L'Huillier, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris