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petahertz

American  
[pet-uh-hurts] / ˈpɛt əˌhɜrts /

noun

  1. one quadrillion (1015 ) hertz. PHz

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This opens up the prospect of exploiting the new effects for advancing solid-state high-speed metrology and signal processing towards the petahertz frontier.

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