Purchase of a diode-pumped solid-state laser
Aarhus University will be investing in an apparatus to investigate the photodynamics of free heteroclusters andnanodroplets using energetic and ultrashort light pulses. The goal is to characterize in real-time fundamentalultrafast processes such as electronic and vibrational relaxation, fragmentation, complex formation, energyand charge transfer, and nanoplasma formation. To this end, we combine the techniques of free-jet expansionwith velocity-map imaging of electrons and ions. To reach the required time resolution of <1 ps, a mode-lockedtitanium::sapphire laser is used, which is pumped by a diode-pumped solid-state laser.