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Gerard Mourou
Researcher at École Polytechnique
Publications - 664
Citations - 36215
Gerard Mourou is an academic researcher from École Polytechnique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Laser & Ultrashort pulse. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 653 publications receiving 34147 citations. Previous affiliations of Gerard Mourou include University of Michigan & San Diego State University.
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Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses
Donna Strickland,Gerard Mourou +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the amplification and subsequent recompression of optical chirped pulses were demonstrated using a system which produces 1.06 μm laser pulses with pulse widths of 2 ps and energies at the millijoule level.
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Optics in the relativistic regime
TL;DR: In this paper, a number of consequences of relativistic-strength optical fields are surveyed, including wakefield generation, a relativistically version of optical rectification, in which longitudinal field effects could be as large as the transverse ones.
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Self-channeling of high-peak-power femtosecond laser pulses in air
TL;DR: The self-channeling of ultrashort laser pulses through 20 m of air was demonstrated and a preliminary model is shown to explain these results.
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Laser ablation and micromachining with ultrashort laser pulses
X. Liu,D. Du,Gerard Mourou +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the mechanisms of ultrashort-pulse laser ablation of materials are discussed, and the differences to that of long laser pulses are emphasized, and some femtosecond laser pulse micromachining results, including comparison with long pulses, are presented.
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Highly efficient relativistic-ion generation in the laser-piston regime.
TL;DR: An intense laser-plasma interaction regime of the generation of high density ultrashort relativistic ion beams is suggested and it is suggested that the laser energy is transformed efficiently into the energy of fast ions.