Project title: Harmony
CEA collaborators: IRAMIS
Project status: software delivered to IRAMIS in 2023, in service
Keywords: Nobel Prize, dissemination, science outreach
To illustrate the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier for their work initiated and conducted at CEA IRAMIS on attosecond laser physics, we were asked to develop an educational video-based software using audible frequencies, which we named “Harmony.” Attosecond laser pulses are generated from a very large number of synchronous wavelengths. Harmony makes it possible to illustrate the generation of these ultrafast laser pulses using audio signals generated from synchronous harmonics. During this project, I was responsible for the design and graphic development as well as the deployment of the interface. Harmony is operational and is currently used at IRAMIS for science outreach to present the work for which Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier were awarded the Nobel Prize.
