Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 for "attosecond exposure time"

[Maximilian]

I know it is not what you would call photography.
But everybody on the radio calls it "photographing electrons" and "attosecond exposure time".
Today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
“for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.

An attosecond is 10 by -18 or 0,000 000 000 000 000 001 seconds or 1/100 000 000 000 000 000

Official press release:

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"

www.nobelprize.org

Edit: at the time I made this thread the press release was dated at Oct. 3rd, 2022
Edit 2: Now they've corrected the release date

 

[neuroanatomist]

That's a fast shutter speed!

Many (!!) years ago, I used femtosecond laser pulses (1,000 attoseconds in a femtosecond) to probe the chemical isomerization of visual pigments and photosynthetic proteins.

 

[Click]

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Thats about how long my attention span lasts.

 

[Maximilian]

Thats about how long my attention span lasts.

I don‘t think so.
Because your and my synapses are much, much slower