microsecond

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Ultrafast lasers generate incredibly short bursts of light that last only picoseconds or femtoseconds.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

Their numbers rise quickly and reach a peak after about two and a half picoseconds.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

If the Anthropocene can be said to “take place”, it does so across huge scales of space and vast spans of time, from nanometers to planets, and from picoseconds to aeons.

From The Guardian • Apr. 1, 2016

Those last picoseconds, as the current drains from its circuits, are a living Hell.

From Nature • Apr. 2, 2014

But for a macroscopic cat, the chance that at least one of its roughly 1027 particles makes a hit is high, at least once every 100 picoseconds.

From Scientific American • Oct. 9, 2012