Public lecture of Nobel laureate Prof. Anne L'Huillier

In her lecture, Nobel Prize winner in Physics Anne L'Huillier will discuss the key developments and breakthroughs in attosecond research. 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 the field of attosecond science.