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Surgery with Femtosecond Lasers

Posted by michael on from the fast-popcorn dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Science Daily has an article on femtosecond lasers, which emit pulses of light that are a billion times shorter than an electronic camera flash and how they are currently being used in LASIK procedures."

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  1. Re:Hmm, how fast is an electronic camera flash... by GigsVT · · Score: 4, Funny

    not really, more like a few milliseconds

    I guess we should really come up with some standard system for measurement in news articles, the JI (Journalist Idiots) System of measurement.

    Time - camera flashs
    Small physical size - human hairs
    Large information - Library of congresses
    Meteor size - VW Bugs

    Any more?

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