[time-nuts] atomic/chemical THz sampler

[Tim Shoppa]

Kind of the opposite of what you are asking: ultrafast laser spectroscopy
is used to study chemical reactions and make measurements of their time
scales (often in the time range of several femtoseconds). And precise
timing of photons produced is critical to making the measurements.

The chemical processes at the femtosecond level seem to not click like
clockwork, but instead seem to have exponential decay curves like, say,
nuclear half-lives.

If you were looking to store long sequences of information in chemicals,
the model that comes to mind is DNA. A nice poster on timescales in cell
biology: https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(16)30208-2.pdf

Tim N3QE

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 10:04 AM Glen English VK1XX <
glenlist at pacificmedia.com.au> wrote:

> OK research people...since this forum is loaded with bleeding edge
> understanding,  Is there such a thing in the lab as a material that can
> store, in a 2 level (1 bit) format (or more) , a discrete time
> representation of some event ?
>
> In my simple example (dream), an arrangement of some molecular or some
> quantum storage medium, that can store an event at discrete intervals of
> say, 100fs  ? That is, the duration of the storage might be 1nS, storing
> the state of something, at 100fs intervals (example ) ....having a  (for
> example) sample storage of 10000 samples, and the ability to freeze that
> event (in some atomic level memory) for later readout   once only or
> continuously looped ?
>
> No, I am not proposing this for my period /frequency analyser, I was
> just wondering about super high speed digitization and storage of very
> fast very short events.
>
> -glen
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