Light Quote by Donna Strickland

We proved that we could increase laser intensity by orders of magnitude. In fact, CPA led to the most intense laser pulses ever recorded.…

— Donna Strickland

We thought it would be nice to have atoms interact in such a gentle way with the photons that they would just take an…

— Serge Haroche

Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he…

— Donna Strickland

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

— Eric Allin Cornell

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

— Steven Chu

For her PhD, Maria Goeppert Mayer, a theoretical physicist, came up with the idea of multi-photon physics. That means an atom absorbs two or…

— Donna Strickland

I therefore take the liberty of proposing for this hypothetical new atom, which is not light but plays an essential part in every process…

— Gilbert N. Lewis

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of…

— Alfred Kastler

What the ultrafast laser does is that because it doesn't have to just cut from the surface, it's only at the intense focal point…

— Donna Strickland

After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and…

— Wolfgang Ketterle

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream…

— Al Ries

Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success. But still…

— Richard P. Feynman