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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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Generation of 20-TW pulses of picosecond duration using chirped-pulse amplification in a Nd:glass power chain.
TL;DR: Pulses of 20-TW peak power have been generated using the chirped-pulse-amplification technique with a 90-mm output-aperture Nd:silicate glass amplification line using large holographic gold-coated 1740-lines/mm diffraction gratings.
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Adjusting pulse-front tilt and pulse duration by use of a single-shot autocorrelator.
TL;DR: The design of an autocorrelator is shown that can be used to eliminate the pulse-front tilt and simultaneously adjust the pulse duration in real time by adjustment of the pulse compressor of a chirped-pulse amplified laser system.
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Quasimonoenergetic electron beams with relativistic energies and ultrashort duration from laser-solid interactions at 0.5 kHz.
Aghapi Mordovanakis,James Easter,Natalia M. Naumova,Konstantin Popov,Paul-Edouard Masson-Laborde,Bixue Hou,Igor V. Sokolov,Gerard Mourou,I. V. Glazyrin,Wojciech Rozmus,Valery Bychenkov,John Nees,Karl Krushelnick +12 more
TL;DR: Particle-in-cell simulations which are in good agreement with the experimental results offer insights on the acceleration mechanism by the laser field.
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Temporal Characterization of a Self-Modulated Laser Wakefield
S. P. Le Blanc,S. P. Le Blanc,Michael C. Downer,Michael C. Downer,R. Wagner,Shouyuan Chen,Anatoly Maksimchuk,Gerard Mourou,Donald P. Umstadter +8 more
TL;DR: The temporal envelope of plasma density oscillations in the wake of an intense laser pulse (400 fs) is measured using forward Thomson scattering from a copropagating, frequency-doubled probe pulse as discussed by the authors.
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Femtosecond optical absorption studies of nonequilibrium electronic processes in high Tc superconductors
TL;DR: In this article, femtosecond laser pulses are used to probe nonequilibrium carrier distributions in high-Tc superconducting films and an increase in the relaxation time and peak fractional transmissivity change was observed when the films became superconducted.