![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921080405im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field UCF Researchers Record World Record Laser Pulse
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September 5, 2012
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A University of Central Florida (UCF) research team has created the world's shortest laser pulse and in the process may have given scientists a new tool to watch quantum mechanics in action--something that has been hidden from view until now.
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