A picosecond is an SI unit of time equal to 10−12 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 31,700 years. Multiple technical approaches achieve imaging within single digit picoseconds. For example the Streak camera or intensi... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picosecond