Dr. Cooper. Of course the answer is 130 attoseconds. That is correct. I knew that, too.

库泊博士。当然答案是130渺秒。正确。我也知道。

And of course the answer is 130 attoseconds.

毫无疑问 答案是130百亿亿分之一秒。

Nowadays scientists have managed to shorten the pulses of light even further, down to dozens of attoseconds.

如今， 科学家们已经成功地进一步缩短光脉冲，低至几十阿秒。

It was awarded for the development of ultra-fast lasers that can switch on and off in mere attoseconds, or quintillionths of a second.

该奖项因开发了超快激光器而获奖，该激光器可以在短短阿秒（或十亿分之一秒）内打开和关闭。

At around the same time, Dr Krausz, working independently in Vienna, managed to produce a series of pulses lasting for 650 attoseconds each.

大约在同一时间， 克劳斯博士在维也纳独立工作，成功地产生了一系列脉冲， 每个脉冲持续 650 阿秒。

And sometimes, if the light waves interacted in just the right way, they produced pulses of ultraviolet light that lasted for just a few hundred attoseconds.

有时， 如果光波以正确的方式相互作用，它们就会产生持续几百阿秒的紫外线脉冲。

That is a unit of time so short that there are as many attoseconds in a second as there have been seconds since the Big Bang, 13.8bn years ago.

这是一个非常短的时间单位，一秒内的阿秒数与 138 亿年前大爆炸以来的秒数一样多。

In 2001 Dr Agostini, also working in France, built Dr L'Huillier's observation into a workable piece of technology, designing a way to produce a series of pulses of light that lasted for 250 attoseconds each.

2001 年，同样在法国工作的 Agostini 博士将 L'Huillier 博士的观察结果转化为一项可行的技术，设计了一种产生一系列光脉冲的方法，每个脉冲持续 250 阿秒。