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January 18, 2005
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Each image shows the "snapshot" of a highly structured, half-millimeter-wide laser pulse.
Each image shows the "snapshot" of a highly structured, half-millimeter-wide laser pulse moving from left to right at the speed of light. The vertical axis is in arbitrary units; the horizonal axis is in picoseconds (10-12 seconds), which refers to the time when that part of the pulse arrived at the detector.
Credit: Joshua C. Vaughan, T. Feurer and Keith A. Nelson, MIT
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