Russian scientists contributed greatly to research on ultrashort light pulses, for which their development was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2023..
This was told to journalists by Alexander Apollonsky, chief researcher at the Institute of Automation and Electrical Measurements of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who has been collaborating for 20 years with one of the 2023 Nobel Prize laureates in physics, Ferenc Kraus.
Krauss and a team of scientists generated and measured the first attosecond light pulse and used it to observe the behavior of electrons in atoms, giving birth to a new field of physics, attosecond physics.
The Russian scientist said: “I want to say that there is a strong Russian influence in this Nobel Prize. In the first place there is research into the production of high harmonics of light conducted by the Russian scientists Krinov and Delaunay, and research in the field of ionization of atoms written by the famous Russian researcher and academic Lenid Keldysh.”
Apollonsky pointed out “the decisive role played by Nobel laureate Ferenc Krauss in shaping the topic of autosecondary education, believing that Krauss’s contribution to the Nobel Prize, compared to other laureates, amounts to 60%.”
According to the Russian scientist, the use of attosecond optical pulses will allow in the future to control chemical reactions at the atomic level and develop new high-performance optoelectronic devices. (agencies)
