"Open Readings" invites to a lecture by a Nobel Prize laureate

Professor Anne L’Huillier is one of the pioneers of attosecond science. She has made fundamental contributions to the study of ultrafast processes in matter through her groundbreaking research on high-order harmonic generation, a process that enables the generation of attosecond light pulses. In recognition of this work, she was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics. Currently, Professor L’Huillier continues her research on the development of attosecond light sources and the study of ultrafast electron dynamics, including how electrons move and respond to light following photoionization in atoms and molecules, at Lund University.

When an intense laser interacts with a gas of atoms, high-order harmonics are generated. In the time domain, this radiation forms a train of extremely short light pulses, of the order of 100 attoseconds. Attosecond pulses enable the study of electron dynamics in atoms and molecules using pump-probe techniques. This presentation will highlight key steps in attosecond science.