Sentences with phrase «in quadrillionths»

Imagine being able to control events that happen in a quadrillionth of a second.

The timing control — in femto second, as in the quadrillionth of a second, helps you change the focus of the light received at different locations on the OPA chip.

Not exact matches

Delfyett now directs 15 students in six labs developing new lasers from semiconductors, generating pulses trillionths to quadrillionths of a second long.

«Extremely fast femtosecond (one - quadrillionth of a second) laser pulses record snapshots of the PSII crystals before they explode in the X-ray beam, a principle called «diffraction before destruction.»»

IT ALL happens in a femtosecond — a quadrillionth of a second.

The research team found a new mechanism explaining how this reaction can occur in just tens of femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second), before other competing effects can steal away their energy.

This means seeing how proteins, the building blocks of life, work in a few quadrillionths of a second.

X-ray free - electron lasers, first realized a decade ago, produce the brightest X-rays on the planet, and scientists tap into these unique X-rays to explore matter at the atomic scale and observe processes that occur in just quadrillionths of a second.

In 1996, Berkeley Lab also logged the first demonstration of X-ray pulses lasting just quadrillionths of a second with a technique known as «inverse Compton scattering,» the report notes.

The magnitude of the shift in the starlight's wavelength — on the order of quadrillionths of a meter — together with the period of the wobble can be used to determine an exoplanet's mass and orbital distance from its star.

In Science, «femtosecond» means one quadrillionth of a second.