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A femtosecond is the SI unit of time equal to 10−15 or 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 of a second. That is one quadrillionth, or one millionth of one billionth, of a second. For context, a femtosecond is to a second as a second is to about 31.71 million years; a ray of light travels approximately 0.3 µm (micrometers) in 1 femtosecond, a distance comparable to the diameter of a virus.
The word femtosecond is formed by the SI prefix femto and the SI unit second. Its symbol is fs.
A femtosecond is equal to 1000 attoseconds, or 1/1000 picosecond. Because the next higher SI unit is 1000 times larger, times of 10−14 and 10−13 seconds are typically expressed as tens or hundreds of femtoseconds.
Christmas lights (also known informally as fairy lights) are lights used for decoration in preparation for Christmas and for display throughout Christmastide. The custom goes back to the use of candles to decorate the Christmas tree in Christian homes in early modern Germany. Christmas trees displayed publicly and illuminated with electric lights became popular in the early 20th century. By the mid-20th century, it became customary to display strings of electric lights as along streets and on buildings Christmas decorations detached from the Christmas tree itself. In the United States, it became popular to outline private homes with such Christmas lights in tract housing beginning in the 1960s. By the late 20th century, the custom had also been adopted in non-western countries, notably in Japan and Hong Kong.
In many countries, such as Sweden, people start to set up their Christmas lights, as well as other Christmas decorations, on the first day of Advent. In the Western Christian world, the two traditional days when Christmas lights are removed are Twelfth Night and Candlemas, the latter of which ends the Christmas-Epiphany season in some denominations. Leaving the decorations up beyond Candlemas is historically considered to be inauspicious.
ACM SIGGRAPH is the New York–based Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. It was founded in 1969 by Andy van Dam (its direct predecessor, ACM SICGRAPH was founded two years earlier in 1967).
ACM SIGGRAPH convenes the annual SIGGRAPH conference, attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals. The organization also sponsors other conferences around the world, and regular events are held by its professional and student chapters in several countries. The organization's stated values are excellence, integrity, volunteerism, passion and cross-disciplinary interaction.
The Professional and Student Chapters Committee (PSCC) is the leadership group that oversees the activities of ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters around the world. Within their local areas, Chapters continue the work of ACM SIGGRAPH on a year-round basis via their meetings and other activities. Each ACM SIGGRAPH Professional and Student Chapter consists of individuals involved in education, research & development, the arts, industry and entertainment. ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter members are interested in the advancement of computer graphics and interactive techniques, its related technologies and applications.
This is a demonstration of the principles of femtosecond spectroscopy at the Nobel Prize museum, Stockholm. The 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Ahmed H. Zewail (أحمد زويل) for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.
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Ryan Coffee, scientist at SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source X-ray laser, explains, “What is a femtosecond?” This video is part of SLAC's femtosecond week - a week of ultrafast science. See more at https://home.slac.stanford.edu/femtosecond-week.
Dr. Fishman offers femtosecond laser cataract surgery for his patients. He currently uses the Optimedica Laser platform.
The Femtosecond Pump Probe Spectrometer is used to measure absorption of species in the excited state. It is sometimes called two dimensional spectroscopy because it provided temporal as well as spectral information. Pump beam at a particular wavelength is pulsed on a sample just femtoseconds before another broad spectrum probe beam is pulsed on the sample. The probe beam is then analyzed for absorption by wavelength. For more information see the photonics wiki: http://photonicswiki.org/index.php?title=Femtosecond_Z-Scan_Spectrometer
Fairy Lights in Femtoseconds: Aerial and Volumetric Graphics Rendered by Focused Femtosecond Laser Combined with Computational Holographic Fields Yoichi Ochiai*, Kota Kumagai**, Takayuki Hoshi***, Jun Rekimoto****, Satoshi Hasegawa**, and Yoshio Hayasaki** *University of Tsukuba ** Utsunomiya University ***Nagoya Institute of Technology **** The University of Tokyo and Sony CSL project page: http://digitalnature.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/2015/06/fairy-lights-in-femtoseconds/ Abstract We present a method of rendering aerial and volumetric graphics using femtosecond lasers. A high-intensity laser excites a physical matter to emit light at an arbitrary 3D position. Popular applications can then be explored especially since plasma induced by a femtosecond laser is safer than that generated by a n...
Femtosecond lasers are used to study laser-matter interactions. Chunlei Guo is a professor in The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. He heads the High Intensity Femtosecond Laser Lab and his research focuses on studying laser-matter interactions at high intensities. His research led to the discoveries of a range of highly functionalized materials through laser processing, including the black and colored metals, and superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic surfaces. These technologies have a broad range of applications and have garnered extensive media coverage. He is a member of SPIE and a fellow of the American Physical Society and Optical Society of America.
We have built an imaging solution that allows us to visualize propagation of light at an effective rate of one trillion frames per second. Direct recording of light at such a frame rate with sufficient brightness is nearly impossible. We use an indirect 'stroboscopic' method that combines millions of repeated measurements by careful scanning in time and viewpoints. The device has been developed by the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture group in collaboration with Bawendi Lab in the Department of Chemistry at MIT. A laser pulse that lasts less than one trillionth of a second is used as a flash and the light returning from the scene is collected by a camera at a rate equivalent to roughly 1 trillion frames per second. However, due to very short exposure times (roughly one trillionth of a seco...
This video shows femtosecond laser corneal flap creation and excimer laser (with better clarity of laser firing) ablation. This surgery is for spectacle and contact lenses indipendance for patients who don't want use them. This is most advanced and safe LASIK procedure.
One of the finest ophthalmic surgery. In this video corneal flap creation with Alcon Wavelight FS200 Femtosecond Laser machine , flap lifting and corneal curvature changing with Alcon Wavelight EX500 Excimer Laser machine.