Donna Strickland

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Donna Strickland (2018)

Donna Theo Strickland (born May 27, 1959 in Guelph , Ontario ) is a Canadian physicist. In 2018 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Gérard Mourou and Arthur Ashkin "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics" . After Marie Curie and Maria Goeppert-Mayer , she is the third woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics.

biography

Strickland studied from 1977 Physics Engineering at McMaster University with a Bachelor Accounts in 1981 and his doctorate in 1989 at the University of Rochester in physics at Gérard Mourou ( Development of an ultra-bright laser and on application to multi-photon ionization ). As a post-doctoral student , she conducted research for the National Research Council in Canada from 1989 to 1991 , spent a year in the laser department of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and from 1992 at the Advanced Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials at Princeton University . She has been an Assistant Professor since 1997 and an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo since 2002 . After the Nobel Prize became known, she was given a full professorship. Since 2007 she has been the Associate Chair of the Physics Department.

Strickland deals with non-linear optics , the interaction of intense laser light with matter and ultra-short laser pulses . In 1985 she and Gérard Mourou developed the Chirped Pulse Amplification , which allows the generation of ultra-short laser pulses with very high intensity. In her dissertation, Strickland developed this method, the origins of which lie in radar technology in solving a similar problem. It is used, for example, in eye surgery , an area in which Strickland is also active, and in material processing. It is the most common technique for generating high-intensity laser pulses. More recently, she developed a system for generating ultra-short femtosecond laser pulses by exciting Raman modes at many frequencies (multi-frequency Raman generation, MRG), from infrared to ultraviolet. In addition, her group developed a pulsed fiber optic laser system in the field of infrared fingerprints in molecular physics .

Strickland served on the editorial board of Optics & Photonics News , and from 2004 to 2010 section editor for Optics Letters .

Awards and memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • with Gérard Mourou : Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses. In: Optics Communications. Volume 55, 1985, pp. 447-449, doi: 10.1016 / 0030-4018 (85) 90151-8
  • with P. Maine, M. Bouvier, S. Williamson, G. Mourou: Picosecond pulse amplification using pulse compression techniques. In: G. Bjorklund, E. Hinkley, P. Moulton, D. Pinnow (Eds.): Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. OSA Technical Digest. Optical Society of America, 1986, PDF, 118 KB
  • with P. Maine, P. Bado, M. Pessot, G. Mourou: Generation of ultrahigh peak power pulses by chirped pulse amplification. In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. Volume 24, 1988, pp. 398-403, doi: 10.1109 / 3.137
  • with S. August, DD Meyerhofer, SL Chin, Joseph H. Eberly : Tunneling ionization of noble gases in a high-intensity laser field. In: Physical Review Letters . Volume 63, 1989, p. 2212, doi: 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.63.2212
  • with Paul Corkum : Generation and nonlinear interactions of high power 20-fs pulses. In: A. Owyoung, C. Shank, S. Chu, E. Ippen (eds.): International Quantum Electronics Conference (= OSA Technical Digest , Volume 8). Optical Society of America, 1990
  • with S. August, DD Meyerhofer, SL Chin: Laser ionization of noble gases by Coulomb-barrier suppression. In: Journal of the Optical Society of America. Volume 8, 1991, pp. 858-867, doi: 10.1364 / JOSAB.8.000858
  • with MD Perry, T. Ditmire, FG Patterson: Cr: LiSrAlF₆ regenerative amplifier. In: Optics Letters. Volume 17, 1992, pp. 604-606, doi: 10.1364 / OL.17.000604
  • with Y. Beaudoin, P. Dietrich, Paul Corkum : Optical studies of inertially confined molecular iodine ions. In: Physical Review Letters . Volume 68, 1992, p. 2755, doi: 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.68.2755
  • with CW Hillegas, JX Tull, D. Goswami, WS Warren: Femtosecond laser pulse shaping by use of microsecond radio-frequency pulses. In: Optics Letters. Volume 19, 1994, pp. 737-739, doi: 10.1364 / OL.19.000737
  • with Paul Corkum: Resistance of short pulses to self-focusing. In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B. Volume 11, 1994, pp. 492-497, doi: 10.1364 / JOSAB.11.000492
  • with Z. Zhang, AM Deslauriers: Dual-wavelength chirped-pulse amplification system. In: Optics Letters. Volume 25, 2000, pp. 581-583, doi: 10.1364 / OL.25.000581

Web links

Commons : Donna Strickland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information in Strickland's dissertation. http://www.lle.rochester.edu/media/publications/documents/theses/Strickland.pdf ( Memento from July 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Press release from the Royal Science Academy in Stockholm on the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics
  3. ^ Class of 2019 / Promotion 2019. Royal Society of Canada / Société royale du Canada, accessed September 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Governor General Announces 120 New Appointments to the Order of Canada. The Governor General of Canada, accessed January 18, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Strickland, Donna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strickland, Donna Theo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Guelph , Ontario