Anne L'Huillier
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| Born | 1958 (age 65–66) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Physicist |
Anne L'Huillier (born 1958 in Paris) is a French physicist, and professor of atomic physics at Lund University.
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Life
L'Huillier first pursued an education in theoretical physics and mathematics, but switched for her PhD to experimental physics at the French nuclear research center of the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives in Saclay Nuclear Research Centre. Her dissertation was on multiple ionization in laser fields of high intensity. As a post-doctoral student, she was in Gothenburg, Sweden and Los Angeles, California, United States. From 1986, she was permanently employed at the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre. In 1992, she took part in an experiment in Lund, where one of the first titanium-sapphire solid-state laser systems for femtosecond pulses in Europe had been installed. In 1994 she moved to Sweden, where she served as a lecturer in 1995, and a professor in 1997, in Lund. She leads an attosecond physics group.[1]
In 1987, she took part in an experiment involving the generation (odd) harmonics of high order[2] (High harmonic generation) on irradiation of noble gases with in a picosecond pulses. Under such conditions, 2N+1 photons of the fundamental laser beam are absorbed by the atom, and a single photon of higher energy is emitted (2N+1th harmonic). HHG generation in gases succeeded McPherson and colleagues in 1987,[3] and a little later L'Huillier showed with colleagues that after an initial strong decrease in intensity, the harmonics formed a so called plateau i.e. they all have approximately the same intensity for a large energy range. She also continue to characterize HHG (for example, coherence properties,[4] phase matching) and works both experimentally and theoretically. In the 1990s and 2000s, she turned to the production, characterization[5] and application[6][7] of attosecond pulses with HHG.
L'Huillier is on the Nobel Committee for Physics (2010), and has been a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2004. In 2003, she received the Julius Springer Prize. In 2011 she received a UNESCO L'Oréal prize. In 2013, she was awarded the Carl-Zeiss Research Award and the Blaise Pascal Medal.[8]
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References
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