A
picosecond is an
SI unit of time equal to 10
-12 or
1/
1,000,000,000,000 of a
second. That is one trillionth, or one millionth of one millionth of a
second, or 0.000 000 000 001 seconds. A picosecond is to one second as one second is to 31,710 years. Multiple technical approaches achieve imaging within single digit picoseconds. For example the
Streak camera or
intensified CCD (ICCD) cameras are able to picture the motion of light.