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| '''Donna T. Strickland''' is an optical ] and professor at the ] working in the fields of ultrafast ] and ]. Strickland, along with her Ph.D. supervisor Dr. ], co-invented ] (CPA), which made it possible to amplify ] to high peak power.<ref>D. Strickland and G. Mourou, “Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses”, Opt. Commun. 56, 219 (1985)</ref> | |||
| In 1981, Strickland received her B. Eng. in Physics from ] in ]. She earned her Ph.D. in Optics from the ] in 1989. After completing her Ph.D., she worked with the National Research Council of Canada as a research associate from 1989 to 1991. After a year in the laser division of ], she became a member of ]'s Advanced Technology Center for Photonics and optoelectronic materials in 1992. In 1997, Strickland joined the physics department of the ] as an assistant professor. In 2007, she was promoted to associate chair of the physics department.<ref name=Bio>The Optical Society Biography: https://www.osa.org/en-us/history/biographies/donna-t-strickland/</ref> Her ultrafast laser group "develops high-intensity laser systems for nonlinear optics investigations." <ref>https://uwaterloo.ca/physics-astronomy/people-profiles/donna-strickland</ref> | |||
| Strickland is a fellow of ] (OSA) and served as the OSA president in 2013. | |||
| ==Awards and honors== | |||
| *2018 Nobel Prize in physics<ref>https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/summary/</ref> | |||
| *2008 Fellow of the Optical Society of America | |||
| *2000 Cottrell Scholars Award from Research Corporation | |||
| *1999 Premier’s Research Excellence Award | |||
| *1998 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship | |||
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