Submitted by Max-Phallus t3_10rza78 in askscience
Ok-Ease5589 t1_j6zgz70 wrote
This is how ultrafast lasers work. You have many different frequencies that are mode locked, which basically means phase locked, to form an intense but short pulse on the order of pico- to femtoseconds. There are some built by physicists that are in the attosecond regime.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrashort_pulse_laser
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_locking
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_comb
https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-18-12-13006&id=199923
There are other devices called pulse shapers that can change the phase relationships between the different frequencies in the pulse in order to shape the pulse envelope to be gaussian or to resemble a square pulse or even make two separate pulses that have a delay time similar to the duration of the original pulse.
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