To do this,
they fired ultraviolet laser pulses lasting 100 to 200 attoseconds (10 - 18 seconds) at a helium atom to start exciting its pair of electrons.
Not exact matches
Eugene Tkalya of the Institute of Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University in Russia suggests making a thorium
laser by
firing conventional
ultraviolet lasers at crystals made mostly of lithium, calcium, aluminium and fluorine, with a sprinkling of thorium.
In a series of experiments, the team
fired an unspeakably brief, extremely
ultraviolet laser pulse at a helium atom to start exciting its pair of electrons.
When hit with a burst from an
ultraviolet laser, the ATP broke free, activating the rat ion channels and causing the fly's neurons to
fire, the researchers report today in Cell.