The Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Anne L'Huillier
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"
We send our warmest congratulations for this achievement to Anne L'Huillier and her team at the Division of Atomic Physics of the Lund Laser Centre!
Read more about it in the press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Welcome to Lund Laser Centre
The Lund Laser Centre (LLC) is an organisation for interdisciplinary research and collaboration in the fields of optics, spectroscopy and lasers at the Lund University. At the LLC a broad range of activities are pursued within several different research divisions and groups at the engineering, sciences and medical faculties, and at the MAX IV Laboratory. Interdisciplinary collaboration across borders, organisational as well as scientific, is a guide star for the LLC. The centre comprises today about 120 scientists, including 20 professors and about 65 PhD students.
The LLC is stimulating integrated projects between different research groups, and allow them to exploit the competitive advantage of one of the major European constellations of researchers in light/matter interactions. This has a great impact on the centre’s research and constitute a substantial added value. Directly after its establishment, the LLC was successful in its application to the EC as a "European Large Scale Facility", and after favourable evaluations and follow-up applications it has remained at this status of European excellence. The LLC is one of the founding members of the EC consortium Laserlab-Europe, presently comprising 35 leading laser research infrastructures in 18 EU countries. International research groups frequently visit the LLC within the EC supported Access Programme of Laserlab Europe.
Light & Materials Synergy Day with LLC Research & Strategy Day
This year the LLC Research & Strategy Day will be co-organised with the NanoLund Annual Meeting, within our joint LU profile area “Light & Materials” as a Light & Materials Synergy Day. The event will take place Tuesday 10 October at Palaestra and AF-Borgen.
Information about the meeting can be found on the Light & Materials blog.
Prestigious prize to Anne L'Huillier
Anne L’Huillier has received the prestigious Wolf prize in physics 2022 for her pioneering efforts in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics as detailed in the motivation. The prize is shared with Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz. You can read more about the prize and the recipients on the homepage of the Wolf Foundation.
