The 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Gerard Mourou, Arthur Askin, and Donna Strickland. These papers are the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.

Nobel Lecture: Extreme light physics and application
Gerard Mourou
Rev. Mod. Phys. 91, 030501 (2019)
Nobel Lecture: Generating high-intensity ultrashort optical pulses
Donna Strickland
Rev. Mod. Phys. 91, 030502 (2019)