A fun exercise calculating the roundtrip time for a signal from a radar gun to catch a speeding vehicle traveling.

Our hacker [Wil Carver] has sent in his submission for the One Hertz Challenge: Precise Time Ref via 1 Pulse-Per-Second GPS ...

The LiDAR laser is attached to a rotating turntable. The laser scans an area of 16 vertical sections, or “slices,” per second. In total, the device emits 1.3 million laser pulses per second.

When at full power, LCLS-II will be able to pump out around a million X-ray pulses per second, about 8,000 times more than its predecessor, which was able to create around 120 X-ray pulses per second.

The taser delivers 19 short pulses per second over 5 seconds, with an average current of 2 milliamps, according to TASER manufacturer Axon.

By firing 10,000 laser pulses per second, ICESat-2 builds a highly detailed, three-dimensional record of Earth’s changing surface. Its ability to measure elevation shifts in polar regions has ...

LCLS-II’s XFEL, however, offers as many as a million X-ray pulses per second—roughly 8,000 times more often, as well as 10,000 times brighter, than its progenitor.

A few years back, they learned of a German company developing lasers capable of blasting 1,000 pulses per second. The groups teamed up to develop a laser specifically for lightning.

Ultra-short pulse laser acceleration of protons to 80 MeV from cryogenic hydrogen jets tailored to near-critical density. Nature Communications, 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39739-0 ...

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) upgrade, LCLS-II, can emit up to a million X-ray pulses per second (8,000 times more than the original) and an almost continuous beam 10,000 times brighter ...

A team of researchers at ETH Zurich led by Ursula Keller, professor at the Institute for Quantum Electronics, have now set a new record for such laser pulses: at 550 watts of average power they ...