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Optical oscilloscope picks up the pace

09 Feb 2022 Isabelle Dumé
optical oscilloscope
UCF Physics Associate Professor Michael Chini worked on the world’s first optical oscilloscope. Courtesy: University of Central Florida
The world’s first optical oscilloscope – an ultrafast device for measuring the electric field of

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