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Zewail, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize for his research, measured these miniscule changes in femtoseconds; a femtosecond is one millionth of a billionth of a second.
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NBC News, 19 Oct. 2020
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, the pulse durations were brought down to as little as a few femtoseconds (a femtosecond is equal to 10–15 second), approaching the time frame of atomic motions.
—Quanta Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
One femtosecond is one-quadrillionth of a second—that’s one millionth of one billionth of a second!
—Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2023
Ochiai’s setup, nicknamed Fairy Lights, employs much shorter femtosecond laser pulses that are much less dangerous despite having a high peak intensity, Ochiai says.
—Mark Aramo, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
One evening while working in the lab, Du accidentally lifted his goggles while aligning the mirrors of a femtosecond laser, then a very new type of laser that emitted an extremely short pulse of light.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
Developed during the 1990s, the technique uses ultra-short laser pulses—a femtosecond is one-millionth of a billionth of a second—which produces no heat to cut into a surface of an object.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2021
An encounter of a PBH with a human body would represent a collision of an invisible relic from the first femtosecond after the big bang with an intelligent body—a pinnacle of complex chemistry made 13.8 billion years later.
—Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 6 June 2021
Ultrashort lasers produce pulses with a duration measured in femtoseconds (a femtosecond is 10-15 or a million-billionth of a second), and while their overall energy may be small, the power level for that brief duration is extremely high.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
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NBC News, 19 Oct. 2020
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, however, the pulse durations were brought down to as little as a few femtoseconds (a femtosecond is equal to 10–15 second), approaching the time frame of atomic motions.
—Quanta Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
One femtosecond is one-quadrillionth of a second—that’s one millionth of one billionth of a second!
—Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2023
Ochiai’s setup, nicknamed Fairy Lights, employs much shorter femtosecond laser pulses that are much less dangerous despite having a high peak intensity, Ochiai says.
—Mark Aramo, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
One evening while working in the lab, Du accidentally lifted his goggles while aligning the mirrors of a femtosecond laser, then a very new type of laser that emitted an extremely short pulse of light.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
Developed during the 1990s, the technique uses ultra-short laser pulses—a femtosecond is one-millionth of a billionth of a second—which produces no heat to cut into a surface of an object.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2021
An encounter of a PBH with a human body would represent a collision of an invisible relic from the first femtosecond after the big bang with an intelligent body—a pinnacle of complex chemistry made 13.8 billion years later.
—Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 6 June 2021
Ultrashort lasers produce pulses with a duration measured in femtoseconds (a femtosecond is 10-15 or a million-billionth of a second), and while their overall energy may be small, the power level for that brief duration is extremely high.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
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First Known Use
1976, in the meaning defined above
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“Femtosecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/femtosecond. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.
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