Sentences with phrase «of a billionth of a second long»

Alongside him, a couple of off - the - shelf lasers spit out pulses of light just millionths of a billionth of a second long.

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Researchers have found a way to generate the shortest - ever flash of light — 80 attoseconds (billionths of a billionth of a second) long.

Ultrafast lasers have measured how long electrons take to be booted from a helium atom with zeptosecond precision — trillionths of a billionth of a second

The researchers fixed a three centimetre long diamond strip, just 0.3 millimetre thick, in a specimen holder and triggered a shock wave with a brief flash from a powerful infrared laser that hit the narrow edge of the diamond; this pulse lasted 0.15 billionths of a second (150 picoseconds) and reached a power level of up to 12 trillion watts (12 terawatts) per square centimetre.

They then zapped the electrons in the well with pulses of laser light, each 100 million billionths of a second long and covering a spot 16/100 of an inch across.

The scientists let strong, approximately four - femtosecond - long laser pulses hit the group of atoms (a femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a second).

When co-author Zhaoming Zhu, Gauthier's postdoctoral research associate, encoded information onto one of these beams, the data could be imprinted on these newly created phonons and retained for 12 billionths of a second, long enough to be transferred back to light again by shining a third laser through the fiber.

This «serial time - encoded amplified microscopy» (STEAM) camera creates each image using a very short laser pulse — a flash of light only a billionth of a second long.

This technology can zoom in on objects as small as a few nanometers big (a few billionths of a meter wide) and can catch a moment in time to reveal what happens over about 15 nanoseconds (15 billionths of a second long).