Gerard Mourou
École Polytechnique
664 Papers
7.7K Citations
Gerard Mourou is an academic researcher from École Polytechnique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Laser & Ultrashort pulse. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 653 publications. Previous affiliations of Gerard Mourou include University of Michigan & San Diego State University.
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Papers
Proton acceleration by single-cycle laser pulses offers a novel monoenergetic and stable operating regime
M. L. Zhou,M. L. Zhou,X. Q. Yan,X. Q. Yan,Gerard Mourou,J. Wheeler,Jianhui Bin,Jörg Schreiber,Toshiki Tajima,Toshiki Tajima,Toshiki Tajima +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated laser-matter interactions in the few optical cycle and ultra relativistic intensity regimes, leading to the efficient coherent generation of short (femtosecond; 10−15s) monoenergetic ion bunches with a peak energy greater than GeV.
Characterization of short-pulse oscillators by means of a high-dynamic-range autocorrelation measurement.
A. Braun,J. V. Rudd,H. Cheng,Gerard Mourou,D. Kopf,I. D. Jung,K. J. Weingarten,Ursula Keller +7 more
TL;DR: A high-dynamic-range autocorrelation technique was used to characterize the temporal pulse shape of ultrashort laser pulses produced from four separate oscillators, showing that the Nd:glass oscillator supported a pulse that was temporally clean over 8 orders of magnitude.
Nonlinear Optics in Relativistic Plasmas and Laser Wake Field Acceleration of Electrons
TL;DR: Electron acceleration and the appearance of high-frequency modulations in the transmitted light spectrum were both found to have sharp thresholds in laser power and plasma density.
Use of polyethylene terephthalate for temporal recompression of intense femtosecond laser pulses
S. Yu. Mironov,V N Ginzburg,E I Gacheva,D. E. Silin,A. A. Kochetkov,Yu A Mamaev,A A Shaykin,Efim Khazanov,Gerard Mourou +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the linear properties of polyethylene terephthalate, such as index of refraction, spectral transmittance and transverse distribution of phase and polarization distortions, have been measured.