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But now an international research team has used laser light differently to induce magnetism in picoseconds, and in a first, initiated a magnetic state that lasted for milliseconds.
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IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2025
Optical atomic clocks, accurate to picoseconds, will enable satellite constellations and ground stations to determine satellites’ locations with centimeter-level precision—avoiding potentially catastrophic in-orbit collisions.
—Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
This activity is highly non-linear so that a small change in initial conditions can be inconsequential or lead to huge differences in outcome over timescales ranging from picoseconds to hours or days.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
Phase errors measured in picoseconds can cause the microwave beam to blur or drift off its target.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2024
For instance, the absorption of photons in a solid results in an energy transfer from the light field to the atoms that occurs over attosecond to picoseconds or even longer.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2024
The vector vortex beams could generate spin textures in roughly 10 picoseconds, about 10 times faster than conventional lasers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
Previous experiments had seemed to show light-sensitive molecules in this area in two different states at the same time — that’s quantum weirdness — but the effect lasted more than 1 picosecond, which is much longer than expected.
—Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2018
Rapid switching is possible in principle (the laser should be able to switch in picoseconds), but that still has to be done in practice.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 May 2020
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IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2025
Optical atomic clocks, accurate to picoseconds, will enable satellite constellations and ground stations to determine satellites’ locations with centimeter-level precision—avoiding potentially catastrophic in-orbit collisions.
—Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
This activity is highly non-linear so that a small change in initial conditions can be inconsequential or lead to huge differences in outcome over timescales ranging from picoseconds to hours or days.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
Phase errors measured in picoseconds can cause the microwave beam to blur or drift off its target.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 May 2024
For instance, the absorption of photons in a solid results in an energy transfer from the light field to the atoms that occurs over attosecond to picoseconds or even longer.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2024
The vector vortex beams could generate spin textures in roughly 10 picoseconds, about 10 times faster than conventional lasers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
Previous experiments had seemed to show light-sensitive molecules in this area in two different states at the same time — that’s quantum weirdness — but the effect lasted more than 1 picosecond, which is much longer than expected.
—Bill Andrews, Discover Magazine, 21 May 2018
Rapid switching is possible in principle (the laser should be able to switch in picoseconds), but that still has to be done in practice.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 May 2020
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“Picosecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/picosecond. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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picosecond
noun
pi·co·sec·ond
ˈpē-kō-ˌsek-ənd, -ənt 
: one trillionth of a second
—abbreviation ps
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