How to Use picosecond in a Sentence

picosecond

noun
  • The time delays are very small, often just a few picoseconds.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The source sends simultaneous, picoseconds-long pulses of light in two directions.
    — Peter McMahon, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2018
  • The mechanical part of the switch cannot reach the picosecond speeds needed to modulate light in an optical transmitter.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Nov. 2019
  • By reducing those cooling times, ICFO has brought speeds down from picoseconds to femtoseconds.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2017
  • The technology emits short, picosecond laser pulses that break pigmented particles into fragments.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Strengthening the network with ultrafast laser pulses In the second stage, the researchers exposed the aligned nanowires to extremely short bursts of laser light lasting just picoseconds.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
  • On-chip computing latency measured just 320 picoseconds.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026
  • By using such ephemeral voltage pulses, each lasting a picosecond or so, RSFQ promised to boost clock speeds to greater than 100 gigahertz.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
  • Those energies were exceeded during the cosmos’s first 100 picoseconds (10-10 seconds).
    — Big Think, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The system integrates a Next Generation Atomic Clock (NGAC) to achieve single-digit picosecond stability and sub-nanosecond accuracy.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Blending two worlds In April, the same team made headlines after developing the PoX 2D flash memory prototype, which achieved an extraordinary program speed of 400 picoseconds, the fastest semiconductor charge storage ever recorded.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
  • His team found that the switching speed of the SOT-MRAM reached 210 picoseconds while the STT-MRAM, created on the same wafer, clocked a speed of 5 nanoseconds.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2018
  • However, lasers also can generate picosecond (10-12 second) or femtosecond (10-15 second) pulses to measure distances more precisely, and concentrating pulse energy into such short time spans might raise their peak power to levels that could ablate material from the sensor surface.
    — Jeff Hecht, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Jan. 2019

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