How to Use femtosecond in a Sentence

femtosecond

noun

• 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
• The medium in question is a block of high-purity glass, which has voxels etched into it with femtosecond lasers.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2019
• For context, 1 terawatt is 1 trillion watts, while 1 femtosecond is the equivalent of 1 quadrillionth of a second.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2021
• For many years light pulses were stuck in the femtosecond regime (one femtosecond is 1000 attoseconds).
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023
• Tuned to pick up near-infrared light and completing a scan in a few femtoseconds (10–15 seconds), the loop would see the vacuum glowing like a gas at room temperature.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2016
• 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.
  — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2020
• 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.
  — NBC News, 19 Oct. 2020
• Within 30 femtoseconds – millionths of a billionth of a second – the molecule lost more than 50 electrons, far more than expected.
  — Fox News, 5 June 2017
• 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
• The problem was fundamental: even the briefest physically achievable optical laser pulse was a few femtoseconds in length.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2023
• Other light sources like synchrotrons can certainly generate X-rays, but X-ray free-electron lasers have the advantage of creating very bright, very fast X-ray bursts, on the order of femtoseconds.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Sep. 2023
• For this solar purifier, the scientists treated aluminum sheeting using a treatment of femtosecond-long—a quadrillionth of a second—laser pulses.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2020
• This requires that all possible states of the traveling particle be superposed in a single, coherent quantum state for tens of femtoseconds.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2013
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Computational approaches to protein structure focused on cunning algorithms, rather than on attempting to track atoms femtosecond by femtosecond.
  — Oliver Morton, WIRED, 1 July 2001
• Measuring them requires equipment capable of discriminating between femtoseconds.
  — The Economist, 16 June 2018

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024