Awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier
For their work in experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.
The experiments helped produce pulses of light so short that they can be measured in attoseconds.
The pulses can be used to provide images of the processes inside atoms and molecules
Working of Attosecond Light Pulses: It uses an extremely fast strobe light to illuminate the object making it look like it has been frozen in time.
The only Indian to win Nobel Prize in Physics: C. V. Raman (1930), For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him (Raman effect).