femtosecond
Noun
Meaning
one quadrillionth (10^-15) of a second; one thousandth of a picosecond
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Femtosecond laser synthesized nanohybrid materials for bioapplications // Appl.
Free Electron Laser Recently, free electron lasers have been developed for use in X-ray crystallography. citation These are the brightest X-ray sources currently available; with the X-rays coming in femtosecond bursts.
Deuterium can be detected by femtosecond infrared spectroscopy, since the mass difference drastically affects the frequency of molecular vibrations; deuterium-carbon bond vibrations are found in locations free of other signals.
Nonlinear two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy is a technique that has become available with the development of femtosecond infrared laser pulses.
Even high-lying bands can be effective as femtosecond two-photon experiments have shown.
Do Femtosecond Lasers Merit the Cost?