Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 2026-10-18
One half went to Arthur Ashkin for optical tweezers and their biological applications. One quarter each went to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for a method of generating intense, ultrashort optical pulses.[ref]
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 by Nobel Prize Outreach. Individual official summary: Ashkin one half for optical tweezers and biological applications; Mourou and Strickland one quarter each for intense ultrashort optical pulses.