Abstract:

In 1985, Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou published a paper about the invention of chirped pulse amplification (CPA) conception, a milestone of high peak power laser development, which generated the ultra-intense and ultra-short laser and high field laser physics. Now, the peak power of PW even 10 PW is possible based on CPA, which is regarded as “their work will affect research on everything from fusion to astrophysics”. Therefore, due to the invention of CPA, Prof. Gérard Mourou and Prof. Donna Strickland won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018. This paper will give a brief introduction about the CPA technology, and the significance about Prof. Gérard Mourou and Prof. Donna Strickland’s invention with the recent progresses of ultra-intense and ultra-short laser, related high field physics and Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility (SULF) in State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics in SIOM.