Comment on Sweden’s most powerful laser delivers record-short light pulses
bassomitron@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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 1 week ago
What even is that… we have units in multiples of 1000 for a reason. 1 femtosecond, or 1 millionth of a nanosecond.