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two archival photos of G矇rard Mourou and Donna Strickland
Rochester breakthrough in laser science earns Nobel Prize
做厙勛圖 doctoral graduate Donna Strickland '89 (PhD) and former optics faculty member G矇rard Mourou shared the Nobel Prize in Physics today for work they undertook at the University's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Their breakthrough paved the way for the creating very short and very intense laser pulses now used in a variety of applications, from LASIK eye surgery to the manufacturing of materials used in cell phones.