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Published online 5 November 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1210
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The invention of an ultrafast oscilloscope could yield advances in fields from telecoms to nuclear fusion.
The oscilloscope has had an upgrade since its heyday as an extra in 1960s sci-fi movies. A version of this instrument — originally developed to show changes in voltage with time — can now measure the fine detail contained within extremely rapid light pulses, just 220 femtoseconds long.
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