Anywhere Light Goes Blog

“Physics laureate Donna Strickland, left, receives the prize from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, in Stockholm on Monday. (Pontus Lundahl/Pool Photo/The Associated Press)” On May 21st, the New England Section of The Optical Society (NES/OSA) had the good fortune to feature a conversation with Dr. Donna Strickland, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 for her work in creating Chirped Pulse Amplification--ultrashort high-intensity lasers that have become essential  in  laser fusion research, laser eye surgery, and high-density physics research . It had become a tradition that each year Optikos hosts the last NES/OSA meeting of the season at our Wakefield, Mass. headquarters. While this year’s occasion was...