Nobel Prize for short light pulses.

Nobel Prize for short light pulses.

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glazbagun

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Tuesday 3rd October 2023
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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66964...

To allow the study of atoms. Done via phase cancellation by the look of it, which is so obvious when you think about it.

[i] The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three laureates' experiments produced pulses of light so short that they are measured in attoseconds.

One attosecond is a quintillionth of a second - it is to a second what one second is to the age of the Universe. [/i]

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/pre...