Insights on the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 from the perspective of the CFEL Attosecond Science group

In 2020, researchers at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) generated attosecond light pulses by using ad-hoc synthesized optical waveforms. Photo: AG Kaertner, CFEL.

CUI spokesperson Francesca Calegari, professor at Universität Hamburg and leading scientist at DESY, describes the field of research, the links to the Cluster research and her personal connections to the three researchers awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics, Anne L’Huillier (Universität Lund, Sweden), Pierre Agostini (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA) and Ferenc Krausz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics).