ultrashort
- adjective
- /ˌʌltrəˈʃɔrt/
- Specialized
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ultracorto
- In the complete problem, researchers cannot neglect the motion induced by an ultrashort laser action.
- ultrashort pulse
- ultrashort laser
Examples
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In addition, the power of an ultrashort light pulse can be so high that it modifies the refractive index itself by an amount proportional to the time-dependent incident intensity.
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The special properties of laser-accelerated electron pulses, namely the ultrashort pulse duration, the high brilliance, and the high charge density, open up new possibilities in many applications of these electron beams.
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Only strongly focused or ultrashort-pulse lasers can provide such prodigious power.
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Because of advances in semiconductor and laser technologies, it is now possible to apply very intense, ultrashort pulses of light to nanometer-scale semiconductor heterostructures.
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With the development of ultrashort-pulse lasers, it became possible to separate experimentally the effects of screening from those due to the Pauli exclusion principle.
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As a rule of thumb, the magnitude of the nonlinear polarization and the supercontinuum bandwidth scale with the pump power, so ultrashort picosecond and femtosecond pulses are usually used as pump sources because they have the highest peak power.
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This thesis demonstrates that laser pulses with an ultrashort duration of 8 fs and a peak power of 6 TW allow the production of electron energies up to 50 MeV via LWFA.
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Ultrashort pulses are essential for capturing fast-moving events in scientific experiments.
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The new camera can record ultrashort flashes of light, allowing us to see phenomena that happen in billionths of a second.
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Researchers developed a method to generate ultrashort signals that improve the accuracy of data transmission.
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Etymology
Ultrashort combines the part ultra- and the word short, where ultra- means 'beyond' or 'extreme', as in ultraviolet. So ultrashort is 'far shorter than usual', which fits uses like very short bursts of time or very short wavelengths.