femtosecond

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The key to creating the super-filament is an ultra-brief, ultra-intense beam of light called a femtosecond laser pulse.

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  • To do this, the researchers simultaneously hit the sample with two femtosecond (quadrillionth of a second) titanium-sapphire laser pulses at an angle to each other, generating an interference pattern in the sample. —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • As Dirk said, a femtosecond is to a second as a minute is to the age of the universe. —  The Business Blog at Intuitive.com
  • This allowed the authors to hit the sample with a short, femtosecond pulse of the central laser, and then insert a delay before hitting them with a donut-shaped laser at the same wavelength. —  Ars Technica
  • Femtolasers Produktions, a leader in ultra-fast laser equipment, offers the FemtoOptics product family through Elliot Scientific, to respond to the optical needs of the femtosecond laser community. —  optics.org all content
  • Abstract: NH stretching excitations of DNA oligomers containing 23 alternating adenine-thymine base pairs are studied in femtosecond two-color pumpprobe experiments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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