Nobel Lecture: Extreme light physics and application* Page 1 Nobel Lecture: Extreme light
physics and application * Gerard Mourou † Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex …

Abstract Short wavelength Free-Electron Lasers (FELs) are among the newest light sources
available to scientists to probe a wide range of phenomena, with chemical, physical and …

Free-electron lasers producing ultrashort pulses with high peak power promise to extend
ultrafast non-linear spectroscopic techniques into the extreme-ultraviolet–X-ray regime. Key …

It is a long-standing challenge for laser technologies to generate intense fully coherent
pulses in the x-ray regime. Here, we demonstrate an external seeding mechanism, termed …

Optical pulses are fundamentally defined by their temporal and spectral properties. The
ability to control pulse properties allows practitioners to efficiently leverage them for …

The ability to manipulate acoustic and elastic waveforms in continuous media has attracted
significant research interest and is crucial for practical applications ranging from biological …

Free-Electron Lasers are a rapidly growing field for advanced science and applications, and
worldwide facilities for intense field generation, characterization and usage are becoming …

Coherent nonlinear spectroscopies and imaging in the X-ray domain provide direct insight
into the coupled motions of electrons and nuclei with resolution on the electronic length …

Advances of high intensity lasers have opened up the field of strong field physics and led to
a broad range of technological applications. Recent x-ray laser sources and optics …

Gratings, one of the most important energy dispersive devices, are the fundamental building
blocks for the majority of optical and optoelectronic systems. The grating period is the key …