Physicists at Stanford University in the US have produced the shortest ever laser pulse at optical frequencies. The pulse lasts for just 1.6 femtoseconds, which corresponds to just 0.8 of an optical cycle for pulses with a central wavelength of 650 nanometres (M Y Shverdin et al. 2005 Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 033904).
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