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Re:Ultrafast Optical Detector by glumreaper on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:44PM (#43724803)
The 50GHz or 20ps figure is actually the limit of the gear the scientists had available - from the paper at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ad9284/...

"the signal state transitions were established at less than 20 ps, which is comparable to the bandwidth limit of the oscilloscope utilized at 50 GHz. [...] the initial rise time constant may be shorter than the measurement limits of the oscilloscope."

Re:Ultrafast Optical Detector by mmmBacon on Friday April 18, 2025 @11:17AM (#43728865)
Sure. But it’s on them to prove their claim that the device is faster and they haven’t done that. There are faster scopes and you can rent them.