What is an “attosecond pulse”, and what can you use it for?(physics.stackexchange.com)
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What is an “attosecond pulse”, and what can you use it for?
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Indeed. My takeaway was that it's basically a subatomic strobe light, making the differences in movement between pulses more evident.
Very cool stuff!
Very cool stuff!
The answer is really amazingly approachable even for a non-scientist like me. One of the main reasons why I still feel the StackExchange universe (and similar) have a lot of the world's knowledge.
I mean taking the title at face value and factoring in the odds... Practically speaking _you_ can do absolutely nothing with them.
If you can then you work in a far more interesting field or place than most.
If you can then you work in a far more interesting field or place than most.
Attosecond pulses are useful to observe changes in atoms as they happen.
Of course, that's like when people ask what brought me to Alaska and I tell them a car. Ha ha ha. But exceptional write-up. Feel like I could at least ask questions to learn more.