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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Gérard Mourou
| image = Gérard Mourou, 2014.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Gérard Mourou in 2014
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|6|22}}
| birth_place = [[Albertville]], France
| birth_name = Gérard Albert Mourou
| other_names = GA Mourou
|work_institution=[[École Polytechnique]]<br>[[ENSTA ParisTech]]<br>[[University of Rochester]]<br>[[University of Michigan]]
| known_for  = [[Chirped pulse amplification]]
| awards = [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] {{small|(2018)}}
}}

{{nobelprize|Physics}}'''Gérard Albert Mourou''' (born June 22, 1944) is a French scientist. He worked in electrical engineering and [[lasers]].

With [[Donna Strickland]], he won the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for their co-invention of a technique called [[chirped pulse amplification]], or CPA.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080905085848/http://www.engin.umich.edu/research/cuos/ResearchGroups/HFS/Profiles/Gerard_Mourou.html Gérard Mourou Profile] engin.umich.edu Retrieved 2 October 2018</ref> 

In 1994, Mourou and his team at the [[University of Michigan]] discovered that the balance between [[Kerr effect]] and self-[[diffraction]] by [[ion]]ization act as [[waveguide]]s for the beam.

==References==
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==Other websites==
*[http://loa.ensta.fr/index_gb.html Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525020429/http://loa.ensta.fr/index_gb.html |date=2009-05-25 }}
*[http://www.polytechnique.edu/ Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau]
*[https://cuos.engin.umich.edu/ Center for Ultrafast Optical Science]

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[[Category:1944 births]]
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[[Category:French physicists]]


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