Public Lecture with Professor Emeritus and Nobel Laureate, Pierre Agostini
From Attos to Zeptos
US Bank Conference Theater, Ohio Union
Tuesday, April 2nd
7:00 PM
Abstract: Attosecond (billionth of a billionth of a second) pulses are currently the shortest light pulses created from high harmonics discovered by Anne L’Huillier and coworkers in 1987. These short pulses are fast enough to follow in principle electrons motion in atoms or molecules. The recollision physics, which is at the origin of those pulses, can be extrapolated to ultra-relativistic regime and perhaps give rise to pulses a thousand time shorter (zeptosecond) in the future, according to theoretical physicists. This talk will explain the physics of attosecond pulses, review some applications from atomic physics to medicine, and speculate on the prospect of zeptoseconds.
The recording of Pierre Agostini's April 2nd lecture, Attos to Zeptos, is now available!
You can watch it at the link below and on our YouTube channel, at The Ohio State University- Department of Physics.
Thank you to everyone who attended in person and on Zoom: we were honored to host Professor Agostini and thrilled to have seen all the community interest in his work and our department!
Photo Credit: Nobel Foundation Official Portrait of Pierre Agostini, © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément Morin
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