Dear Colleagues,
We are proud to inform you that the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded to our long-time collaborators: with one half to Arthur Ashkin for «the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems» and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for «their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses». This is a very significant event for the whole laser physics world community! We congratulate the Laureates with the well-earned award!