College Physics ›› 2019, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (2): 1-4.doi: 10.16854 /j.cnki.1000-0712.180614

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Tools made of light———An introduction to the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics

WANG Ruo-peng   

  1. School of Physics,Peking university,Beijing 100871,China
  • Received:2018-11-05 Revised:2018-11-09 Online:2019-02-20 Published:2019-03-28

Abstract: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics to Arthur

Ashkin,Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland,“for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics”. This

article gives a brief introduction to their Nobel Prize-winning inventions.

Key words: Nobel Prize in physics, laser physics, optical tweezers, chirped pulse amplification