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Sweden’s most powerful laser delivers record-short light pulses (www.umu.se)
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[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Very cool stuff, and this snippet really blew my mind:

At its peak it generates 100 terawatts – equivalent to five times the average power consumption of the world – although only for a few millionth of a billionth of a second.

It's refreshing to see news about awesome sci-fi-esque tech that is in the application phase with some really cool experiments lined up.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 1 month ago

a few millionth of a billionth of a second

What even is that... we have units in multiples of 1000 for a reason. 1 femtosecond, or 1 millionth of a nanosecond.