One femtosecond is 10-15 seconds, that is, 0.000000000000001 seconds, which is to a second as a second is to 32 million years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Release: The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference

The laser, called a femtosecond laser, produces pulses lasting only a few quadrillionths of a second-a femtosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 million years.    From Wordnik.com.  [R&D Mag - News] Reference

The laser, called a femtosecond laser, produces pulses lasting only a few quadrillionths of a second—a femtosecond is to a second what a second is to about 32 million years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists Create Metal That Pumps Liquid Uphill | Impact Lab] Reference

(A femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a second.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

A Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Physics at Tufts, Omenetto was fascinated by the lab equipment his father used, such as femtosecond lasers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

"femtosecond" laser, using ultra-fast bursts of laser light, to alter electron spin and thus speed up retrieval and storage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Next Big Future] Reference

A full day of photo taking, gone in an electrostatic femtosecond.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: May 16, 2004 - May 22, 2004 Archives] Reference

With femtosecond spectroscopy we can for the first time observe in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Release: The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference

I pointed out that measurement of one micron requires femtosecond accuracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [AGU Fall Meeting « Climate Audit] Reference

With femtosecond spectroscopy other researchers have found that the process takes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Release: The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference

You either need a clock with femtosecond accuracy, or a very stable frequency source.    From Wordnik.com.  [AGU Fall Meeting « Climate Audit] Reference

For his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Release: The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference

Zewail for his studies of transition states of chemical reactions by femtosecond spectroscopy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999] Reference

Zewail tried his femtosecond laser on literally everything that moved in the world of molecules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999 - Presentation Speech] Reference

In femtosecond spectroscopy the original substances are mixed as beams of molecules in a vacuum chamber.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Release: The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry] Reference

The data is "written" onto the nail with femtosecond laser pulses and read using a fluorescence microscope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: July 3, 2005 - July 9, 2005 Archives] Reference

To obtain a sharp "image" of the molecules in the course of a chemical reaction requires a femtosecond (10-15s) shutter speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1999] Reference

Quantum control by chirped femtosecond laser pulses.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Setting up a vegetable garden at home for safe, organic food] Reference

How good is the output from your femtosecond laser?.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to U.N. ends Kyoto CO2 offset drought ahead of key meet] Reference

Direct fabrication of three-dimensional voids using femtosecond lasers.    From Wordnik.com.  [D Mag - News] Reference

The atoms move in a unique and coherent way on the femtosecond timescale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nano Tech Wire] Reference

A femtosecond is equal to one billionth of one millionth of a second or 10-15 seconds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

With femtosecond lasers, however, the only post-processing required is ultrasonic cleaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference

Delivery of molecules into cells using carbon nanoparticles activated by femtosecond laser pulses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Although whereas the gum would only hold its flavor for about a femtosecond, this drink carries it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Needcoffee.com] Reference

The resulting image produced by each electron represents a femtosecond still at that moment in time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nano Tech Wire] Reference

A microchip fabricated with femtosecond lasers at RIKEN allows the rare observation of microalgae behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [D Mag - News] Reference

They sent an extreme-ultraviolet attosecond pulse on the same path as that of the earlier, femtosecond pulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [current.com top stories] Reference

The development of the nano-aquarium microchip would not have been achieved without Sugioka's femtosecond laser expertise.    From Wordnik.com.  [D Mag - News] Reference

The third order cross-correlator is ideal for looking at the full range of output from amplified femtosecond laser systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to U.N. ends Kyoto CO2 offset drought ahead of key meet] Reference

» Next Article in Physics - Physics: Physicist proposes to use femtosecond, chirped laser pulse trains to reduce decoherence.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Posted on: Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 14: 25 CST Charting femtosecond California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to So, just how difficult is it for parents to set up their own school?] Reference

The X-Ray Observatory set for launch after 2020 might be the spacecrafts to use femtosecond lasers for precision distance measurements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine] Reference

The lens is placed in a "pocket" created in the cornea by a femtosecond laser, the same kind of laser routinely used for LASIK surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

These were pretty elaborate calculations, with femtosecond time resolution, and molecular interactions that considered quantum effects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ars Technica - Front page content] Reference

Imperial College London in the field of femtosecond vibrational spectroscopy of fluorescent proteins in the group of Dr. Jasper van Thor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference