Fastest-Ever Flashgun Captures Image of Light Wave

Fastest-Ever Flashgun Captures Image of Light Wave

technology.newscientist.com — However hard you stare, you would still miss it. Researchers have found a way to generate the shortest-ever flash of light – 80 attoseconds (billionths of a billionth of a second) long. Such flashes have already been used to capture an image of a laser pulse too short to be "photographed" before (see right).More... (General Sciences)

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